[Bug 425526] [NEW] Kubuntu Karmic i386 Alpha 5 network copy/stream from samba share glitch approximately every 5 minutes

[Ian Mackenzie]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: samba

Updated as at approximately 4am 7th September 2009 GMT

When playing media from a Samba share, about 5 minutes (this varies)
will play and then stop. This happens with both MP3 files and MP4 videos
(TED talks)

When copying several GB of files from a samba share to locally, the copying stalls with a message along the lines of "Cannot locate file "smb://10.1.1.2/Docos/TED/blah.MP4" and offers a dialog to skip, autoskip, or cancel. In this case, there is a partial file (size varies - it could be ~18MB or ~170MB of a 240MB file) in the destination directory.
Copying just the file if failed to copy and pasting it into the directory works fine, even while the original operation continues.

I have updated the BIOS, added a different ethernet card, swapped
cables, and tried a 100MBit rather than Gigabit switch, and it makes no
difference.

Ubuntu Karmic Alpha 5 from a USB stick plays the media perfectly on this
hardware, for reference, and I am therefore confused as to what has gone
wrong in Kubuntu (linking smbclient to kioslaves or dolphin) as opposed
to Ubuntu (where smbclient works fine with gvfs & nautilus)


Description:    Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release:        9.10


smbclient:
  Installed: 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu2 0
        500 http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I have been unable to find anything in KSystemLog that appears helpful
or relevant to the file transfer stall.

Intel E5200 CPU on Gigabyte G43 motherboard with 2GB DDR2-800, 40GB IDE
drive (scrounged from dead laptop)

Ian Mackenzie

** Affects: samba (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Kubuntu Karmic i386  Alpha 5 network copy/stream from samba share glitch approximately every 5 minutes
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