Steps to reproduce Connect to remote ssh server via GNOME-Nautilus. Drag-and-drop any file from Nautilius to Emacs or just open it from there. Change this file and try to save. Get the following Error Saving file /run/user/1000/gvfs/sftp:host=196.196.196.196,user=ubuntu/home/ubuntu/FOO... basic-save-buffer-2: Unlocking file: Function not implemented, /run/user/1000/gvfs/sftp:host=196.196.196.196,user=ubuntu/home/FOO In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30) of 2019-09-26 built on lcy01-amd64-022 Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11906000 System Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS Recent messages: (New file) funcall-interactively: Buffer is read-only: # [3 times] Making completion list... delete-backward-char: Text is read-only Making completion list... Read-Only mode disabled in current buffer Saving file /run/user/1000/gvfs/sftp:host=,user=ubuntu/home/ubuntu/input... basic-save-buffer-2: Unlocking file: Function not implemented, /run/user/1000/gvfs/sftp:host=,user=ubuntu/home/ubuntu/input Mark set Mark saved where search started Configured using: 'configure --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr '--includedir=${prefix}/include' '--mandir=${prefix}/share/man' '--infodir=${prefix}/share/info' --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --disable-silent-rules '--libdir=${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' '--libexecdir=${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --program-suffix=-snapshot --with-modules=yes --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xwidgets=yes 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/emacs-snapshot-fC400k/emacs-snapshot-98514=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security' 'CPPFLAGS=-Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro'' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS XWIDGETS LIBSYSTEMD PDUMPER LCMS2 GMP Important settings: value of $LC_MONETARY: en_GB.UTF-8 value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_GB.UTF-8 value of $LC_TIME: en_GB.UTF-8 value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/flyspell hides /usr/share/emacs/27.0.50/lisp/textmodes/flyspell /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/rst hides /usr/share/emacs/27.0.50/lisp/textmodes/rst /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell hides /usr/share/emacs/27.0.50/lisp/textmodes/ispell /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/latex-cjk-thai/thai-word hides /usr/share/emacs/27.0.50/lisp/language/thai-word Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs text-property-search seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils misearch multi-isearch time-date subr-x cl-loaddefs cl-lib browse-url tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting xwidget-internal move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 49492 11491) (symbols 48 6177 1) (strings 32 16257 1599) (string-bytes 1 525839) (vectors 16 9447) (vector-slots 8 125910 11864) (floats 8 20 46) (intervals 56 291 0) (buffers 992 14))