[Bug 582925] [NEW] OOo needs mount.cifs to default to nobrl if possible

[Chris Cheney]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: samba

This doesn't affect me directly but I maintain OpenOffice.org for
Ubuntu.

It appears after getting numerous reports that OOo does not save
properly to cifs mounted filesystems that the cause is due to the fact
the 'nobrl' option is not being used. The root cause of this bug may be
a problem in OOo itself but according to the man page of mount.cifs it
sounds like it would probably be a good idea to use this option in any
case.

nobrl
       Do not send byte range lock requests to the server. This is
       necessary for certain applications that break with cifs style
       mandatory byte range locks (and most cifs servers do not yet
       support requesting advisory byte range locks).

Some of the OOo bugs, I may have missed some, are bug 486443, and bug
578402. Also upstream bug
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=93957 among 10 other
cifs related bugs, probably all caused by lack of nobrl.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: smbfs 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CIFSMounts: Error: command ['mount', '|', 'grep', 'cifs'] failed with exit code 1: mount: only root can do that
Date: Wed May 19 11:26:35 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100128)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SambaClientRegression: No
SourcePackage: samba

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

** Affects: samba (Ubuntu Lucid)
     Importance: High
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug lucid

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OOo needs mount.cifs to default to nobrl if possible
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/582925
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