From: Bernardo <bernardo.bacic@pobox.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Emacs cannot write file in a Virtual Box shared folder
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 20:22:04 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736fmfo77.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
Greetings,
Running GNU Emacs in Debian (9.11) VM guest under VirtualBox host (6.0.14) running on Windows 10 box.
(hope all this makes sense)
Am having problems editing files located in a Virtual Box shared
directory. The directory is owned by root but members of 'vboxsf'
group have read/write/execute rights. Emacs user is a member of
'vboxsf' group.
$ groups
some_user cdrom sudo audio <snip> bluetooth vboxsf
The (old) version of Emacs that comes with Debian reads/writes files ok;
GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.11) of 2017-09-12 on hullmann, modified by Debian
The version of Emacs that's built from Git repos cannot write
file. Also by default it opens the file in read-only mode.
GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.11) of 2019-10-21
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Unlocking file" "Operation not permitted" "/media/sf_Home/zz_stuff")
write-region(nil nil "/media/sf_Home/zz_stuff" nil t "/media/sf_Home/zz_stuff")
basic-save-buffer-2()
basic-save-buffer-1()
basic-save-buffer(t)
save-buffer(1)
funcall-interactively(save-buffer 1)
call-interactively(save-buffer nil nil)
command-execute(save-buffer)
Other editors (GNU nano) within the VM read/write the same files correctly.
Sounds like a bug?
--
cheers
next reply other threads:[~2019-10-21 9:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-21 9:22 Bernardo [this message]
2019-10-22 14:35 ` Emacs cannot write file in a Virtual Box shared folder Robert Pluim
2019-10-23 10:07 ` Bernardo
2019-10-22 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
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