[Feedback] Amarok + 1.4

[Art Alexion]

As far as I can tell, I have this samba share mounted user read & write.



On 5/5/07, Jeff Mitchell <kde-dev at emailgoeshere.com> wrote:
> Andrew Ash wrote:
> > Egor,
> >
> > I've actually seen this bug appear in some triaging work I do for Kubuntu's version of Amarok [1].  We didn't really figure much out but that it doesn't work like we
> > thought it did.  Hopefully this one has an easy fix, since Samba shares are sort of a sore spot for Amarok.  There's a short description of the problem on the Amarok wiki
> > [2], but its solution to create an /etc/fstab entry seems like working around the problem, not really fixing it.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >  [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/amarok/+bug/91229
> >
> Regarding the Ubuntu bug:
>
> 1) The user recompiled Amarok from SVN source but not taglib.  TagLib
> 1.4 is quite old by now, and a huge number of bugfixes have been checked
> into SVN since then.  The problem doesn't sound to me like it's an
> Amarok issue, because we just pull in the tags TagLib gives us.  I'd
> recommend recompiling TagLib from current SVN and seeing how that
> affects things.
> 2) Is the user using CIFS or SMB?  In the past I had a lot of problems
> with CIFS, although I hear it's much better now.  But trying it on both
> would be good.
>
>  [2] http://amarok.kde.org/amarokwiki/index.php/Samba
>
> I haven't seen that Wiki page before but AFAICT it rather unfairly
> blames some upstream problem on us.  I've been through the collection
> scanner code, and just looked again, and I don't see anywhere where it
> looks at permissions of files.  The problem is either in TagLib or, just
> as likely, in Samba itself -- we've seen bugs in the past where it
> reports read-only files as writable and so on.
>



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