gnumeric does not save to sftp share

[tsingi]

Binary package hint: gnumeric

When I open a file with gnumeric across ssh i.e. gnumeric sftp://rick@atmgrasp/home/rick/pub/time.gnumeric, the edited file is saved it is saved in my home directory, i.e. /home/rick/time.gnumeric instead of to the share.

This behavior is transparent to the user, and quite confusing.

I can reproduce the bug from different Ubuntu 9.10 installs.

This is new behavior, before upgrading to 9.10 the problem did not exist.

The server hosting the file is Fedora and has not been changed in any way.

It is not a permissions problem.

Opening files across the same shares with gedit or gvim behaves as expected, the changes are saved on the share.

I filed this bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601274 it was suggested that the problem is that libgsf may have been compiled without vfs support.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov 9 05:52:14 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnumeric
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnumeric 1.9.9-1ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: gnumeric
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[tsingi (graham-rick)]

this bug has been confirmed and resolved in the development version of libgsf

so it still exists in the distro.

for reference: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601274

[Murray Cumming (murrayc)]

This fix does not seem to be in Karmic. Maybe it's in Lucid. It should be in Karmic too. It's a (silent) data loss bug, so it should be very high priority. Things don't get much worse than this.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

This should be verified as to the status in Ubuntu 10.04. We don't need to backport the changes if it is not fixed yet in gnumeric 1.10.1, which is in 10.04. According to the gnome bug report:

quote:

Morten Welinder [Gnumeric developer] 2009-11-10 01:12:15 UTC

This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be
available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.

/end quote

It depends on what the next major software release was on that date.

[tsingi (graham-rick)]

I'd forgotten about this.

I can verify that the fix is NOT evident on a newly installed Fedora Core 12, gnumeric 1.8.4

I will test Ubuntu 10.04 at home this evening.

[Andreas J Guelzow (aguelzow)]

"newly installed Fedora Core 12, gnumeric 1.8.4"? Gnumeric 1.8.4 is ancient.

[Andreas J Guelzow (aguelzow)]

Charlie, Gnumeric 1.9.16 was released on 2009-11-29, so all 1.10.x releases of Gnumeric will containthe fix you referred to.