152287 - Can't save files to NFS mounted drive on MacOS X

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: XPCOM, defect)

Description

[Sitsofe Wheeler]

Steps to reproduce:
1. Mount an nfs drive
2. Try to download a file to the newly mapped drive

Expected:
File to be saved to NFS drive or at least for the file to be held until saving
works (at the moment it has to be redownloaded).

Result:
An error dialog saying 
"<nfs-1001>:(blahblah).dmg could not be saved, because an unknown error occured. 

Sorry about that. Try saving to another location."

On the system at univeristy a student profile is kept on NFS so the natural
place to save files (the desktop) produces this error. Under linux the drive is
also NFS mounted and this error does not occur.

Mozilla 1.0 MacOS X.

Comment 1

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

Known problem with the Mac file impl - doesn't work on NFS drives. Must be a bug
somewhere but can't seem to find it... I'll take it.

Comment 2

[Sitsofe Wheeler]

Does the same apply to samba/mactalk shares? Perhaps there is a bug on shares
full stop?

Comment 3

[Peter Hopkins]

Exact same problem with hard drive partitions mounted in the root filesystem
using fstab, ie: "Users" partition mounted at /Users instead of /Volumes/Users.

Comment 4

[Greg K.]

*** Bug 167768 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Elmar Ludwig]

Shouldn't this depend on bug 118203?

Comment 6

[Len Laughridge]

In version 1.2.1, Mozilla would launch and load a user profile if that profile
resided on an NFS-mounted home directory.  It would not, however, save
downloaded files to any NFS-mount (including the home directory), makeing it
useless for Mail or all but the most basic browsing.

In 1.3a, 1.3b, and the current (9 March) 1.4a nightly, Mozilla will NOT load a
user profile from an NFS-mounted home directory.  Since this was an issue that
was fixed previously, this appears to be a regression.  I WAS able to save a
downloaded PDF file to an NFS-mounted share when running from a local (HFS+)
home directory with the 1.4a build.

The error message on failing to load the profile is:
"Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)
[nslProfileInternal.currentProfile]

Please elevate the priority of this bug if at all possible.  Thank you.

Comment 7

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

Based on this

"I WAS able to save a
downloaded PDF file to an NFS-mounted share when running from a local (HFS+)
home directory with the 1.4a build"

this bug is fixed. It is fixed in the Mach-O build (now the only Mac build)
because that uses the new file impl. The failure mentioned in the same comment
is bug 196487 and is a different issue having to do with using fcntl file
locking on NFS mounted dirs.