Here is a strange bug.

If I gksudo nautilus with a blank CD/DVD in a drive, the command fails
with a Segmentation fault.

Nice.

Is this by design ?

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:30:59 -0400, Hobbes wrote:

> Here is a strange bug.
>
> If I gksudo nautilus with a blank CD/DVD in a drive, the command fails
> with a Segmentation fault.
>
> Nice.
>
> Is this by design ?

Strange, I tried it and got the same result, popping a blank DVD in
afterwards kills it too.

Do you need root access to a blank DVD?

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Hobbes illuminated alt.os.linux.ubuntu by typing:
> Here is a strange bug.
>
> If I gksudo nautilus with a blank CD/DVD in a drive, the command fails
> with a Segmentation fault.
>
> Nice.
>
> Is this by design ?

Well. The same is happening here too. And no, I doubt it is by design.

Digging a little deeper, i.e. having a root nautilaus open while
inserted a blank DVD.

Root nautilus closes and echo's the following error into the terminal
window....

(nautilus:7526): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Operation not
supported
Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed:
'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open
usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or
directory
Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.

So. It's actually an issue with Samba. There is already a launchpad
bug open
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...re/+bug/211966

Workaround
"The directory didn't exist. I have solved it by doing this

mkdir /var/lib/samba/usershares
chmod 777 /var/lib/samba/usershares
"

HTH

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Moog wrote:
> Hobbes illuminated alt.os.linux.ubuntu by typing:
>> Here is a strange bug.
>>
>> If I gksudo nautilus with a blank CD/DVD in a drive, the command fails
>> with a Segmentation fault.
>>
>> Nice.
>>
>> Is this by design ?
>
> Well. The same is happening here too. And no, I doubt it is by design.
>
> Digging a little deeper, i.e. having a root nautilaus open while
> inserted a blank DVD.
>
> Root nautilus closes and echo's the following error into the terminal
> window....
>
> (nautilus:7526): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Operation not
> supported
> Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed:
> 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open
> usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or
> directory
> Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.
>
> So. It's actually an issue with Samba. There is already a launchpad
> bug open
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...re/+bug/211966
>
> Workaround
> "The directory didn't exist. I have solved it by doing this
>
> mkdir /var/lib/samba/usershares
> chmod 777 /var/lib/samba/usershares
> "
>
> HTH
>

Using dual boot 8.04/WinXP and trying to keep Ubuntu as isolated as
possible, and got this
me@AMD64:~$ mkdir /var/lib/samba/usershares
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/samba/usershares': No such
file or directory
me@AMD64:~$

me@AMD64:~$ sudo mkdir /var/lib/samba/usershares
sudo: unable to resolve host AMD64
[sudo] password for me:
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/samba/usershares': No such
file or directory
me@AMD64:~$

I do know there's a probably self inflicted config error somewhere
that would explain the "unable to resolve host" but as I'm unaware of
any resultant adverse affects I've been content not to meddle any
more than using sudo in that instance.

HTH




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the politically correct substitute for 'a self induced insanity.'

Bob <invalid.no@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
> Using dual boot 8.04/WinXP and trying to keep Ubuntu as isolated as
> possible, and got this
> me@AMD64:~$ mkdir /var/lib/samba/usershares
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/samba/usershares': No such
> file or directory
> me@AMD64:~$

> me@AMD64:~$ sudo mkdir /var/lib/samba/usershares
> sudo: unable to resolve host AMD64
> [sudo] password for me:
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/samba/usershares': No such
> file or directory
> me@AMD64:~$

Does /var/lib/samba exist?

> I do know there's a probably self inflicted config error somewhere
> that would explain the "unable to resolve host" but as I'm unaware of
> any resultant adverse affects I've been content not to meddle any
> more than using sudo in that instance.

Correct ip-hostname lines in /etc/hosts ?

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Niklaus Kuehnis wrote:
> Bob <invalid.no@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> Using dual boot 8.04/WinXP and trying to keep Ubuntu as isolated as
>> possible, and got this
>> me@AMD64:~$ mkdir /var/lib/samba/usershares
>> mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/samba/usershares': No such
>> file or directory
>> me@AMD64:~$
>
>> me@AMD64:~$ sudo mkdir /var/lib/samba/usershares
>> sudo: unable to resolve host AMD64
>> [sudo] password for me:
>> mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/samba/usershares': No such
>> file or directory
>> me@AMD64:~$
>
> Does /var/lib/samba exist?
>
>> I do know there's a probably self inflicted config error somewhere
>> that would explain the "unable to resolve host" but as I'm unaware of
>> any resultant adverse affects I've been content not to meddle any
>> more than using sudo in that instance.
>
> Correct ip-hostname lines in /etc/hosts ?
>

Thanks, it seems not.

> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 127.0.1.1 AMD64.Belkin.127.0.0.1
>
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
# ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
# fe00::0 ip6-localnet
# ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
# ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
# ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
# ff02::3 ip6-allhosts



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the politically correct substitute for 'a self induced insanity.'

Moog wrote:
> Hobbes illuminated alt.os.linux.ubuntu by typing:
>> Here is a strange bug.
>>
>> If I gksudo nautilus with a blank CD/DVD in a drive, the command fails
>> with a Segmentation fault.
>>
>> Nice.
>>
>> Is this by design ?
>
> Well. The same is happening here too. And no, I doubt it is by design.
>
> Digging a little deeper, i.e. having a root nautilaus open while
> inserted a blank DVD.
>
> Root nautilus closes and echo's the following error into the terminal
> window....
>
> (nautilus:7526): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Operation not
> supported
> Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed:
> 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open
> usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or
> directory
> Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.
>
> So. It's actually an issue with Samba. There is already a launchpad
> bug open
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...re/+bug/211966
>
> Workaround
> "The directory didn't exist. I have solved it by doing this
>
> mkdir /var/lib/samba/usershares
> chmod 777 /var/lib/samba/usershares
> "
>
> HTH
>

Worked here.
I had to prefix sudo to the commands

Trevor Best wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:30:59 -0400, Hobbes wrote:
>
>> Here is a strange bug.
>>
>> If I gksudo nautilus with a blank CD/DVD in a drive, the command fails
>> with a Segmentation fault.
>>
>> Nice.
>>
>> Is this by design ?
>
> Strange, I tried it and got the same result, popping a blank DVD in
> afterwards kills it too.
>
> Do you need root access to a blank DVD?
>

No.
But Moogs reply below worked for me.

I just happened to have a blank CD in the drive whilst doing something else.

On 2008-07-20, Moog <efcmoog@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hobbes illuminated alt.os.linux.ubuntu by typing:
>> Here is a strange bug.
>>
>> If I gksudo nautilus with a blank CD/DVD in a drive, the command fails
>> with a Segmentation fault.
>>
>> Nice.
>>
>> Is this by design ?
>
> Well. The same is happening here too. And no, I doubt it is by design.
>
> Digging a little deeper, i.e. having a root nautilaus open while
> inserted a blank DVD.
>
> Root nautilus closes and echo's the following error into the terminal
> window....
>
> (nautilus:7526): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Operation not
> supported
> Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed:
> 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open
> usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or
> directory
> Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.
>
> So. It's actually an issue with Samba. There is already a launchpad
> bug open

shouldn't Nautilus, as Gnome file manager, be a little more robust in
handling share errors?

> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...re/+bug/211966
>
> Workaround
> "The directory didn't exist. I have solved it by doing this
>
> mkdir /var/lib/samba/usershares
> chmod 777 /var/lib/samba/usershares
> "

jane doa illuminated alt.os.linux.ubuntu by typing:
> On 2008-07-20, Moog <efcmoog@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hobbes illuminated alt.os.linux.ubuntu by typing:
>>> Here is a strange bug.
>>>
>>> If I gksudo nautilus with a blank CD/DVD in a drive, the command fails
>>> with a Segmentation fault.
>>>
>>> Nice.
>>>
>>> Is this by design ?
>>
>> Well. The same is happening here too. And no, I doubt it is by design.
>>
>> Digging a little deeper, i.e. having a root nautilaus open while
>> inserted a blank DVD.
>>
>> Root nautilus closes and echo's the following error into the terminal
>> window....
>>
>> (nautilus:7526): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Operation not
>> supported
>> Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed:
>> 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open
>> usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or
>> directory
>> Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.
>>
>> So. It's actually an issue with Samba. There is already a launchpad
>> bug open
>
> shouldn't Nautilus, as Gnome file manager, be a little more robust in
> handling share errors?

It should be, but it passes it's networking shares via samba, so
therefore it's either a samba issue, or Nautilus is not correctly
implementing itself.

As the priority is set to "low" on the bug on launchpad, I would
suggest that the dev team aren't overly worried about it.

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