Re: [gedit-list] problem saving

[Doug McNutt <douglist macnauchtan com>]

At 09:29 +0200 4/17/09, Steve Frécinaux wrote:
> Samuel de Champlain wrote:
> >  I use Gedit 2.24.3 on Fedora 10. When saving, I often get this message:
> >  Could not create a temporary backup file while saving /home/me/path/to/file
> >  gedit could not backup the old copy of the file before saving the
> > new one. You can ignore this warning and save the file anyway, but
> > if an error occurs while saving, you could lose the old copy of the
> > file. Save anyway?
> >  Sometimes the problem goes away for some unknowned reason.
> >  The aforementionned file belongs to me and is member of my group.
> > I have read and write access. Selinux system default enforcing mode
> > is disabled.
>
> Do you have write permissions on the containing folder?
> If you do, I suggest you get support from Fedora...

The problem is wider than that.  On ubuntu 8 and gedit 2.24 I have
never been able to save a document in my home directory while
including the backup version with the ~ character at the end.
Subdirectories of $HOME work fine.

And most of us have write access to $HOME. A prior presence of a *~
file seems not to make any difference.

I first saw the problem with an upgrade to gedit that came via the
ubuntu guise. Yes. There were simultaneous updates to other software.
It occurred well before I did any experimentation with SELinux.
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