[fuse-devel] Re: firefox extension install on sshfs fails

[Neil S. <fu...@mo...>]

I have discovered - hence recreated - a similar issue to the the one 
(copied & pasted from the list archives) below.

I have been trying to create a new Thunderbird profile, setting the 
profile directory across a fuse-sshfs -mounted directory.
The profile creates but the next step, adding an email account, does not 
appear to get saved into the profile - exit and restart and the account 
is not there.

Its like it had access to write the files in the first place (to create 
the profile) but then does not have access to add more files or modify 
the ones it has.

I'm temporarily running using smbmount - which is fine - but I'd prefer 
to use sshfs so I'm happy to help debug this problem if someone can 
direct me.

(desktop is FC5 running Firebird 1.5, server is RH9 running standard ssh 
server and samba. The server's filesystem is xfs but this shouldn't be 
an issue as it works over smb but not ssh...?)


Thanks
Neil



From: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak_leung@ya...>
Fwd: Re: firefox extension install on sshfs fails
2006-02-02 05:06

  Anybody has any idea.

  --- Miklos Szeredi <miklos@sz...> wrote:

  > To: htl10@us...
  > Subject: Re: firefox extension install on sshfs fails
  > From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@sz...>
  > Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:35:56 +0100
  >
  > > Message body follows:
  > >
  > > firefox extension install on sshfs fails.
  > >
  > > create new profile, and move
  > >
  > > ${HOME}/.mozilla/firefox/<strangestring>.default
  > >
  > > onto sshfs mount, and put symlink from old location onto
  > > the sshfs mount. try installing a new firefox extension,
  > > firefox would ask one to restart, the xpi file appears
  > > under extensions/*/tmp-*.xpi, and
  > > then when firefox restarts, it just get deleted silently.
  > >
  > > sshfs -o reconnect -o workaround=all
  > >
  > > (actually found bookmark update requires workaround=rename
  > > as well).
  > >
  > > using latest sshfs 1.4 and fuse 2.5.1,
  > > kernel 2.6.14 on fedora 4 x86_64
  > >
  > > Sorry, please reply direct, not on fuse-* mailing list...
  >
  > Can you please ask on the fuse-devel mailing list, maybe someone
  > already has a solution.
  >
  > You don't have to subscribe to post.  Just send the above message to
  >
  >  <fuse-devel@li...>
  >
  > If nobody has a solution, please ping me again, and we'll try to
  >track it down.
  >
  > Thanks,
  > Miklos
  >
  >