Can't parse URL on cifs/smb share - gnc 2.3.12

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

On Tue, June 1, 2010 3:20 pm, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> On 6/1/2010 12:40 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:
>>> My gnucash file is kept on a network samba share, mounted locally in
>>> Ubuntu 10 via cifs.
>>>
>>> The file works fine stored locally; but when loaded from the share
>>> (whether symlinked into home directory or just opened under the
>>> location
>>> under /mnt) I get the error "can't parse URL on file://(path)."
>>>
>>> Why would a file on an smb/cifs share not open in gnucash?
>>>
>> I have not idea. It shouldn't fail. What version of GnuCash are you
>> using ?
>>
>>
> 2.3.12.
>> Is there anything in /tmp/gnucash.trace ?
>>
> Nope.
>
> On 6/1/2010 12:58 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>> Presumably you can open the file with zcat. Does the path that you
>> elided from the URI look sane? Are there any spaces or other special
>> characters? Did this work with a previous version of Gnucash?
> Yes, the file opens fine with zcat, and when copied to a local drive
> opens fine. The URI path looks fine too. I will have to try it with an
> older version.
>
> I just recently found some old postings to gnucash lists about problems
> opening files on Samba shares. This must be the same issue. In the older
> postings, I think people were trying to use URIs like smb://; I'm not
> trying to do that here, I just have the smb share mounted as a normal
> directory on the linux filesystem.
>
> I think it must be this:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnucash/+bug/231612

That's nice for Ubuntu.  Maybe they could file one upstream with us?

Try running gnucash under strace and see what syscalls are failing before
gnucash gives up?

> Adam

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-derek