From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: glen stark Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Possible problem using emacs on mounted filesystem. Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:18:07 GMT Organization: Easynews - www.easynews.com Message-ID: <39RYu.96194$uX6.13594@fx21.am4> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395908425 18816 80.91.229.3 (27 Mar 2014 08:20:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:20:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 27 09:20:35 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WT5YA-00023e-Af for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:20:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52267 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WT5Y7-0003OK-RN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 04:20:31 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!cyclone03.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!voer-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.fr7!fx21.am4.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@easynews.com X-Complaints-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly. X-Received-Body-CRC: 3662327810 X-Received-Bytes: 2152 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:204510 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96779 Archived-At: On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 19:15:50 -0500, Barry Margolin wrote: > In article , > glen stark wrote: > >> Hi everyone. >> >> I'm not sure if this is an OS problem or an emacs problem. The problem >> only manifests itself for me on emacs, so I'm starting there. >> >> I have a folder on an older linux server that I mount with the command: >> >> sudo mount -t cifs -o username=xxx,uid=xxx //pdxenlin66/home/stg xenlin >> >> I use emacs to edit the file. I edit fine, but when I save the file, >> the next time I try to edit the buffer I get the message "X changed on >> disk; really edit the buffer?". >> >> Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? This is the first time >> I have such an issue. >> >> Thanks, Glen > > I think this typically means that the clocks are not synchronized > between the client and server. The server's clock is ahead of the > client, so when you save the file its modification time is newer than > the time you saved. > > Make sure you're running NTP on all machines to keep their clocks in > sync. Thanks for the insight. I'm pretty sure you're right. I'm having trouble with running ntp on the virtual machine that's running emacs. I'll have to try and figure out what's going on there. G.