Re: Cannot use normal save (C-x C-s) when operating over network mount

[Lennart Borgman]

Kim, what version of Emacs are you using? Does this happen with
pretest Emacs 23?


On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Kim
Christensen<kim.christensen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 12, 11:41 am, Tassilo Horn <tass...@member.fsf.org> wrote:
>> Kim Christensen <kim.christen...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> Hi Kim!
>>
>> > I am actually mounting the Samba share via the cifs network protocol,
>> > which allows me to mount it as a network file system (using "cifs" as
>> > the vfstype argument to the "mount" application).
>>
>> Ah, then I didn't understand you correctly.  If you mounted a SMB share,
>> then to emacs those should be local files.  Please try the following:
>>
>>   1. Open a file on that share and edit it
>>   2. M-x toggle-debug-on-error
>>   3. Save if with `C-x C-s'
>>   4. Poste the contents of the *Backtrace* buffer here
>>
>> > Are you using tramp for accessing the files? I could try that
>> > tomorrow, without mounting it at all -- just accessing it directly.
>>
>> You can try, but working with files on a mounted smb share should work
>> anyway...
>>
>> Bye,
>> Tassilo
>
> Hi again,
>
> I have enabled the debugger and receive the following trace when
> trying to save ('C-x C-s'):
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Opening output file" "no
> such file or directory" "/mnt/effie/foo.bar/www/mulang/
> basket_options.php")
>  write-region(1 4688 "/mnt/effie/foo.bar/www/mulang/
> basket_options.php" nil t "/mnt/effie/foo.bar/www/mulang/
> basket_options.php")
>  basic-save-buffer-2()
>  basic-save-buffer-1()
>  basic-save-buffer()
>  save-buffer(1)
>  call-interactively(save-buffer)
>
> That doesn't give me much information to proceed with though...
>
> What is the difference between saving a file with 'C-x C-s' and 'C-x C-
> w', filesystem-wise? Maybe this error is related to the actual
> procedure done on the filesystem; I recall gedit having some trouble
> when saving files that were accessed through SMB/CIFS because of the
> way it saved the file with a temporary name at first - then renaming
> it to the original file. I am not sure how Emacs do this, but it could
> be related.
>
> Regards,
> Kim
>