nautilus works poorly with smb

[LoonyPhoenix]

Binary package hint: gvfs

Files won't open properly over the network: documents fail to open in OpenOffice (it says file format error found); text files fail to open (gedit says unexpected error: invalid argument); most archives won't open (fileroller says Unexpected EOF in archive); files fail to copy to the local system (in fact, they do copy, but on finishing the transfer nautilus says "Invalid argument").

However, playing audio and video files seems to work, even if copying them still fails.

It seems to me as though the system can't access the final several kilobytes (or megabytes) of any file.

I think this must be a bug in gvfs, but I might be mistaken.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 16 21:04:18 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gvfs 1.3.4-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
SourcePackage: gvfs
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[LoonyPhoenix (loonyphoenix)]

Reposted the bug as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592075

[Michael Born (mborn319)]

I can confirm this bug affects me on Precise trying to access a windows share through Nautilus. Nautilus views the files and folders with no problem, but any attempt to open them results in an "invalid argument" message from the opened application.

[Ronald (ronald645)]

Same issue here, like Michael Born. But maybe we should open a new bug? I'm having this issue with 12.04 fully updated this morning.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

@Ronald: if that's the same issue than described here there is no need to open a bug new bug, maybe check also http://bugzilla.gnome.org, that's a better place to report code issues with gvfs, we don't have gvfs hackers in the Ubuntu team but mostly distribute the upstream code

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Upstream commented on the bug asking that:

"Can you try this with a recent gvfs to see if it still a problem? Is it easily
reproducible?

Also try using the cmdline tools:
gvfs-copy smb://host/path ~/file.bin"

could you reply to those questions?