GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 595282
SSHFS Sync Plugin fails write test
Last modified: 2017-07-31 12:36:29 UTC
I set the SSH Plugin up, created a folder myself and on clicking the Save button, it mugs me that the "Write test failed". On the server side it looks like this: muelli@meatbox ~ $ ls -l /tmp/tomboyfoo/ total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 muelli muelli 0 15. Sep 17:12 test muelli@meatbox ~ $ And FWIW, the local side looks like this: muelli@bigbox ~ $ ls -l /home/muelli/.tomboy/sync-sshfs total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 muelli muelli 0 15. Sep 17:12 test muelli@bigbox ~ $ So it obviously wrote something. I expected it to either work just fine, or to raise an error with a message I can investigate on. So at least give me a chance to make that error go away by giving some technical detail.
BIG WARNING: Tomboy 0.12.0 and 0.12.1 have a known DATA LOSS bug in synchronization. Please make sure you're running 0.12.2 or later to avoid this bug (causes notes to get erroneously deleted, though since they get moved to ~/.tomboy/Backup when deleted, it's not completely disastrous). As for this bug... It's possible that this is fixed in Tomboy 0.14.3, which is our latest stable release. Is it possible for you to try that? If not...does this bug happen every time? I wonder if the SSH connection is just slow or something.
Thanks for the warning. I'll forward that to the Fedora people as I run Tomboy from F10 repositories. Do you happen to know which patch this Data Loss thing fixed? It'll be easier to backport then in case the Fedora people don't want to include a new release in F10. It does happen all the time and the connection is not slow at all. And I can try to jhbuild a newer Tomboy :-) Maybe it's possible to just build the SSH-Sync Plugin?
(In reply to comment #2) > Thanks for the warning. I'll forward that to the Fedora people as I run Tomboy > from F10 repositories. Do you happen to know which patch this Data Loss thing > fixed? It'll be easier to backport then in case the Fedora people don't want to > include a new release in F10. Bug #565102 (with patch attached), fixed in 0.12.2. > It does happen all the time and the connection is not slow at all. Hmm, unfortunate. A quick glance at the NEWS file doesn't show any related fixes, but I should look in the commit log, too, and test for myself as well. > And I can try to jhbuild a newer Tomboy :-) Maybe it's possible to just build > the SSH-Sync Plugin? Well, the SSH sync add-in is built on some infrastructure that's included in Tomboy for making FUSE-based sync-addins, so you're better off upgrading the entire application. Are there are not 0.14.x packages available for F10? It's been out ~6 months now. I recommend 0.14.2 or 0.14.3, if packages are available. Tarballs should work fine, too. :-) In a week or so we'll be releasing our next stable version, Tomboy 1.0.
I'm also having an issue with the webdav plugin, in 1.0.0. some subset of the test files gets created, and then it says the test failed, but neither the webdav server, nor tomboy --debug provide any additional clue.
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