Re: Error "Invalid parameters" while copying

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 20 Dec 2002, Ben FrantzDale wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 00:33, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On 19 Dec 2002, Ben FrantzDale wrote:
> > 
> > > I got this message:
> > > 
> > >         Error "Invalid parameters" while copying.  
> > >         Would you like to continue? 
> > >         [Skip] [Retry] [Stop]
> > >         
> > > While trying to copy a file onto a floppy disk. Any thoughts?
> > 
> > This is GNOME_VFS_ERROR_BAD_PARAMETERS, which typically means 
> > something returned EINVAL.
> 
> Hmm... over my head :-)
> 
> > Did this error happen every time you tried it? It would be interesting to 
> > track down what operation failed. Maybe run it in strace.
> 
> This does happen every time. I just switched floppies and it still
> happens. What process should I be stracing?

Kill alll your nautilus processes, then run this from a shell

"strace -tt -o natuilus.trace nautilus --no-desktop /soure/of/file /floppy"
(where /source/of/file is the directory you're copying the file from and 
/floppy is mounted).

Then wait 10 seconds after the windows come up and do the copy. When it 
has failed, press ctrl-c in the shell to terminate nautilus and send me a 
gzipped copy of nautilus.trace.
  
> > > Also, I was having issues with famd hanging onto the floppy drive after
> > > no windows were displaying it. I had to kill famd to unmount /floppy
> > > either through Nautilus or via command line.
> > 
> > nautilus keeps a fam watch on the trash dir. You should have been able to 
> > unmount it from nautilus though (then it removes the watch before 
> > unmounting).
> 
> Should I report this as a bug, then?

Unmounting from nautilus didn't work? Then that is a bug.

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