GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 554212
Won't save screenshots to RAM disk
Last modified: 2010-09-16 15:33:34 UTC
Please describe the problem: This was originally reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-utils/+bug/259186 by Kevin Hunter "I've created a ramdisk in my $HOME directory as such: $ pwd /home/kevin $ sudo mount -t ramfs kevins_ram_disk ram/ $ mount | grep kevins_ram_disk kevins_ram_disk on /home/kevin/ram type ramfs (rw) Now, when I try to save a screenshot to that directory: it silently seems to just not work. I don't see the file in the normal "Desktop" or "kevin" ($HOME), or "/tmp" directories." Steps to reproduce: 1. Create area for ramdisk - mkdir ~/ram_disk 2. Mount ramdisk - sudo mount -t ramfs ramfs ~/ram_disk 3. sudo chmod +w ~/ram_disk 4. Make sure we can write to ramdisk - touch ~/ram_disk/test 5. Run gnome-screenshot from terminal and attempt to save screenshot to RAM disk. Actual results: gnome-screenshot exits with "handle_transfer_vfs_error!" Expected results: gnome-screenshot should save file to RAM disk Does this happen every time? Yes Other information:
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. However, you are using a version of gnome-screenshot based on gnome-vfs; gnome-screenshot has been converted to use GIO, so this might have been fixed by the latest stable release, 2.24.0. the gnome-utils maintainers will not fix bugs for the old 2.20 release anymore, and will not do any more releases (2.20 was released a year ago). By upgrading to a newer version of GNOME you could receive bug fixes and new functionality. You may need to upgrade your Linux distribution to obtain a newer version of GNOME. Please feel free to reopen this bug if the problem still occurs with a newer version of GNOME.
Now that Ubuntu has moved forward, so have I. I just tested this, and sure enough, it writes, no problem, and doesn't crash. Bug sidestepped or fixed, however you'd like to look at it. Cheers.