Bug 327809

Summary:	Fetch groups - unable to write group lists file
Product:	[Unmaintained] knode	Reporter:	Alan Prescott <alanjprescott>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	4.11.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Alan Prescott 2013-11-19 12:32:25 UTC

Every time I attempt to fetch a list of groups from usenet.plus.net:119 I get the error message
"Unable to write groups list file"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. RMB on existing account and select Subscribe to newsgroups
2. Accept option to load the list of groups
3.
Actual Results:  
Error message "Unable to write groups list file"

Comment 1 Alan Prescott 2013-12-14 08:30:05 UTC

Running from CLI as `knode --nofork` produces:-
 
knode(3116) KNGroupListData::writeOut: unable to open "/home/alan/.kde4/share/apps/knode/nntp.1/groups"  reason 5 

"/home/alan/.kde4/share/apps/knode/nntp.1" is owned by user alan (me) and I have rwx access to it.

Just for the hell of it I've gone into /home/alan/.kde4/share/apps/knode/ and run
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find . -type f -exec chmod 640 {} \;
chown -R alan:Number9 *

and still get the same result from knode

Comment 2 Alan Prescott 2013-12-14 09:53:51 UTC

Ok - this appears to be something to do with my home folder being a CIFS mounted share.

I can create any file I want in the nntp.1 folder EXCEPT 'groups' (XXX, groupsX etc. all work Ok). If I log onto the CIFS server I can create the file but it doesn't show up on the client mount.  Why just the one file name I haven't worked out.
I've switched from cifs to nfs and now knode works Ok

I only used CIFS because nfs was causing a lot of spurious I/Os on the file server - something to do with encrypted fs I believe. When I have the opportunity to upgrade the server maybe that'll sort nfs out. Meanwhile I'll close this bug