I just realised this bug with gvfs, as randolf just pointed out, could very well be directly related to the problem I have been experiencing since 12.10 with LibreOffice hanging randomly sometimes opening and somtimes saving files opened from a samba share mounted with Nautilus sometimes causing data loss. Sometimes I have had to reboot to recover from a hung Libreoffice session when saving to a samba share and retype entries into my spreadsheed on local disk and then copy it up to the samba share.
As a work around for now I am using Smb4K to get my Windows shares mapped so I shall test my theory out. If this is right, and from the sounds of it this bug affects several packages related to music and office (not just nautilus), you are quite right Romano to get this risen to critical status. I sincerely respect everyone's effort in testing and hopefully fixing this bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1075923 Title: nautilus hangs copying large directories from a samba share Status in GVFS: New Status in “gvfs” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Problem ======= Copying files to and from samba shares (this includes Windows shares) is unreliable in Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.04 when using nautilus' integrated samba client (gvfs-smb): The copy randomly hangs after a few files or a few GB. Workaround ========== Until gvfs-smb is fixed, use the kernel samba client (cifs) that works reliably, is faster, but needs some terminal commands to get going: # sudo -s # mkdir /mnt/cifs # mount -t cifs -o user=YOUR_SAMBA_USER -o uid=YOUR_LINUX_USER "//SAMBA_SERVER/SAMBA_SHARE" /mnt/cifs It will ask for you password, you can then access the shared files at /mnt/cifs. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1075923/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
