From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Bernardo <bernardo.bacic@pobox.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs cannot write file in a Virtual Box shared folder
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 16:35:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2a79salvn.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8736fmfo77.fsf@pobox.com> (Bernardo's message of "Mon, 21 Oct 2019 20:22:04 +1100")
>>>>> On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 20:22:04 +1100, Bernardo <bernardo.bacic@pobox.com> said:
Bernardo> Greetings,
Bernardo> Running GNU Emacs in Debian (9.11) VM guest under VirtualBox host (6.0.14) running on Windows 10 box.
Bernardo> (hope all this makes sense)
Bernardo> Am having problems editing files located in a Virtual Box shared
Bernardo> directory. The directory is owned by root but members of 'vboxsf'
Bernardo> group have read/write/execute rights. Emacs user is a member of
Bernardo> 'vboxsf' group.
Bernardo> $ groups
Bernardo> some_user cdrom sudo audio <snip> bluetooth vboxsf
Bernardo> The (old) version of Emacs that comes with Debian reads/writes files ok;
Bernardo> GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.11) of 2017-09-12 on hullmann, modified by Debian
Bernardo> The version of Emacs that's built from Git repos cannot write
Bernardo> file. Also by default it opens the file in read-only mode.
Bernardo> GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.11) of 2019-10-21
Bernardo> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Unlocking file" "Operation not permitted" "/media/sf_Home/zz_stuff")
Bernardo> write-region(nil nil "/media/sf_Home/zz_stuff" nil t "/media/sf_Home/zz_stuff")
Bernardo> basic-save-buffer-2()
Bernardo> basic-save-buffer-1()
Bernardo> basic-save-buffer(t)
Bernardo> save-buffer(1)
Bernardo> funcall-interactively(save-buffer 1)
Bernardo> call-interactively(save-buffer nil nil)
Bernardo> command-execute(save-buffer)
Looks like emacs is trying to create/delete a lockfile, and
failing. Does /media/sf_Home support symlinks?
You can work around this temporarily by customizing 'create-lockfiles'
to nil, but then emacs won't detect if youʼre editing the same file
from a different emacs session.
Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-22 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-21 9:22 Emacs cannot write file in a Virtual Box shared folder Bernardo
2019-10-22 14:35 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2019-10-23 10:07 ` Bernardo
2019-10-22 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
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