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  1. Bug #174212
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 174212

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komputes (komputes) wrote : Re: Cannot save file to FTP server (from Save dialog)

> And actually in the FTP case it could very well be your ftp server is buggy.
> There is a known bug in pureftpd that causes gvfs not to work properly.

Chris, In fact I don't think this is an issue with gvfs or pureftpd. pureftpd may affect other bugs, but it is not the case here. I have tested it on vsftpd locally. OpenOffice still fails with the same error.

-Files can be written to folder via nautilus.
-Files can be saved through the gedit save dialogue.
-File cannot be saved from the OOo save dialogue.

I found, with more tests, that OOo does create a lock file,

cat /home/ftp/dropbox/.~lock.testsave.odt#
,ubuntu,default,28.03.2009 20:19,file:///home/ubuntu/.openoffice.org/3;

Chris can we schedule some software testing for "saving/editing OOo docs on remote filesystems". It would be worth testing this use case with smb, ftp, sftp and nfs as well. Please keep in mind that I am currently running these tests on both intrepid and jaunty. Please ping me if you are interested.

> If that case it is probably not a bug caused by gvfs.

You're correct seb. I don't think this problem is with gvfs since it only seems to affect OOo for now. If anything, it is the way OOo treats the remote file system.