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"
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
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