257052 - Freezes if trying to save file (or html page) to mounted but inaccessable network drive (example: network drive on LAN PC that is currently turned off)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 303675

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Victor Ruskovoloshin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

Here is the situation. I have a drive on another PC (in LAN) mounted as network
drive on the local PC. I saved some file on this network drive using Mozilla and
than turn remote PC off. Drive is still mounted but can not be accessed. Now if
I try to save any file using Mozilla it will give me the message that network
drive can not be accessed (which is correct) but than instead of showing me the
selection of other drives on the local PC it will just stay inactive on dialog
window no matter what I do. The only solution is to terminate the Mozilla using
task manager, dismount the drive and than use Mozilla as usual. If drive is not
dismounted situation repeats.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Mount network drive
2. Save file to it
3. make network drive inaccessable (but still mounted)
4. try to save any file, for example to drive C: (here comes the problem)

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

see Bug 202735 too

Comment 2

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

See also Bug 142664 & Bug 240644.

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 286875 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Darin Fisher]

We should probably figure out how to make the writes happen on a background
thread.  The nsIStreamTransportService can probably be used to make this happen.

Comment 5

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

hm, wouldn't the opening of the file still cause problems?

Comment 6

[Jo Hermans]

fixed by bug 303675

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 303675 ***