my Canon camera mounts under ~/.gvfs. In general things work. I can copy most files to my hard disk. However, like Post 202, I cannot copy large files in the 2GB and above range. The copy starts normally, but if I use System Monitor (graphical interface) to monitor the system, I see the copy function gradually fill all of real memory, then start to fill swap space. Finally it just aborts. It appears the copy function is not emptying the buffer to disk, but just filling it. The problem happens on both ubuntu 12.04 (gvfs 1.2.1) and 14.04 (gvfs 1.20.1). I am not sure this is related to the Samba problem, but gvfs still is not working correctly.
-- 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: Fix Released Status in gvfs package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in gvfs source package in Precise: Confirmed Status in gvfs source package in Raring: Fix Released Bug description: Impact: copies from/to samba share often end up hanging Test case: - visit a smb location in nautilus - copies data from/to it (some non trivial directories makes the issues easier to trigger) - the copy should complete without hanging Regression potentiel: Check that nautilus is still working correctly and than you don't have issues copying data from/to remote locations --- 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
