Bug#593964: gedit: save error on NTFS in VBox with shared folders

[Matthijs Melchior]

Package: gedit
Version: 2.30.3-1
Severity: normal

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This bug occures with gedit running in Debian Linux in VirtualBox on 
WinXP with an NTFS filesystem.

Editing a file on the host filesysten and saving it gives the following 
error in a red bar on the screen:

Could not save the file /C/Temp/test-gedit.
Unexpected error: Error renaming temporary file: Text file busy

** (gedit:20691): WARNING **: Hit unhandled case 0 (Error renaming 
temporary file: Text file busy) in parse_error.

The condensed strace output for this error is as follows:

20724 open("/C/Temp/test-gedit", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, 0666 
<unfinished ...>
20724 <... open resumed> )              = 25
20724 open("/C/Temp/.goutputstream-P3PXHV", 
O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE, 0666 <unfinished ...>
20724 <... open resumed> )              = 26
20724 write(26, "hallo\nhallo\nhallo\n\n\n", 20 <unfinished ...>
20724 <... write resumed> )             = 20
20724 unlink("/C/Temp/test-gedit~" <unfinished ...>
20724 <... unlink resumed> )            = 0
20724 link("/C/Temp/test-gedit", "/C/Temp/test-gedit~") = -1 EPERM 
(Operation not permitted)
20724 rename("/C/Temp/test-gedit", "/C/Temp/test-gedit~" <unfinished ...>
20724 <... rename resumed> )            = 0
20724 rename("/C/Temp/.goutputstream-P3PXHV", "/C/Temp/test-gedit" 
<unfinished ...>
20724 <... rename resumed> )            = -1 ETXTBSY (Text file busy)
20724 close(26 <unfinished ...>

This suggests the reason for the problem:
The .goutputstream-P3PXHV file is being renamed before it is closed.
I believe this is a problem on NTFS...


This also suggests a workaround: make sure the 'Create backup copy' 
editor mode is checked,
                  and do the save twice (ignoring the error on the first...)

Please change gedit and/or glib to aviod this error.

-- Package-specific info:
Active plugins:
   - quickopen
   - codecomment
   - commander
   - smartspaces
   - spell
   - drawspaces
   - bracketcompletion
   - docinfo
   - modelines
   - externaltools
   - time
   - filebrowser
   - terminal
   - multiedit

No plugin installed in $HOME.

Module versions:
   - glib                  2.24.1
   - gtk+                  2.20.1
   - gtksourceview         2.10.3
   - pygobject             2.21.1
   - pygtk                 2.17.0
   - pygtksourceview       2.10.1
   - enchant               1.6.0
   - iso-codes             3.19

Python module versions:
   - python                2.6.6rc1+
   - pygtk                 2.17.0 (GTK+ 2.20.1)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gedit depends on:
ii  gconf2                      2.28.1-3     GNOME configuration 
database syste
ii  gedit-common                2.30.3-1     official text editor of the 
GNOME
ii  iso-codes                   3.19-1       ISO language, territory, 
currency,
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.30.0-1     The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                       2.11.2-2     Embedded GNU C Library: 
Shared lib
ii  libcairo2                   1.8.10-4     The Cairo 2D vector 
graphics libra
ii  libenchant1c2a              1.6.0-1      a wrapper library for 
various spel
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.28.1-3     GNOME configuration 
database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.24.1-1     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.20.1-1     The GTK+ graphical user 
interface
ii  libgtksourceview2.0-0       2.10.3-1     shared libraries for the 
GTK+ synt
ii  libice6                     2:1.0.6-1    X11 Inter-Client Exchange 
library
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.28.1-1     Layout and rendering of 
internatio
ii  libpython2.6                2.6.6~rc1-1  Shared Python runtime 
library (ver
ii  libsm6                      2:1.1.1-1    X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.3.3-3    X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                     2.7.7.dfsg-4 GNOME XML library
ii  python                      2.6.5-11     interactive high-level 
object-orie
ii  python-gobject              2.21.1-2     Python bindings for the 
GObject li
ii  python-gtk2                 2.17.0-4     Python bindings for the 
GTK+ widge
ii  python-gtksourceview2       2.10.1-1     Python bindings for the 
GtkSourceV
ii  python-support              1.0.9        automated rebuilding 
support for P

Versions of packages gedit recommends:
ii  python-gnome2                 2.28.1-1   Python bindings for the 
GNOME desk
ii  zenity                        2.30.0-1   Display graphical dialog 
boxes fro

gedit suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information