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25.2; save-buffer fails to save to an NFS drive in Emacs 25

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From: Don Allingham <dallingham <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.2; save-buffer fails to save to an NFS drive in Emacs 25
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 15:16:31 -0700

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If I open an existing file in Emacs 25 (and Emacs 24), modify it and
attempt to save using C-x C-s (save-buffer), the file does not save. I
get the message "Saving <filename>...", but the file does not save and
remains marked as modified. If I attempt to save it with C-x C-w
(write-file), it prompts me for the name, and if I overwrite the file,
it succeeds. At that point, I can use save-buffer successfully until I
kill the buffer.

This only happens on a NFS mounted drive. If I do the same operation on
a local file system, it succeeds. The problem does not occur with Emacs
23 on the same NFS file system and the same host machine.

This problem occurs with a direct NFS mount, or with autofs automounting
the NFS partition.

The mount command shows the following setup for the automouted NFS
partition.

lco-cssg-nas-17:/export/volDH00/dona on /home/dona type nfs
(rw,nosuid,relatime,vers=3,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=10.30.145.230,mountvers=3,mountport=20048,mountproto=tcp,local_lock=none,addr=10.30.145.230)



In GNU Emacs 25.2.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.21)
 of 2017-09-22, modified by Debian built on lgw01-amd64-050
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11906000
System Description:    Linux Mint 19 Tara

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Recent messages:
Loading 00debian-vars...done
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For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.

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Message #8 received at 34091 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Don Allingham <dallingham <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 34091 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: 25.2; save-buffer fails to save to an NFS drive in Emacs 25
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 13:13:20 -0800

The symptoms you report are pretty strange, especially since I imagine 
lots of people have used Emacs 25 with NFS. I suggest trying again with 
Emacs 26.1 (the latest version). Another possibility is to run the 
command "strace -o $HOME/trace emacs" instead of "emacs", and then look 
at the system calls that Emacs is executing for your file.

Message #11 received at 34091 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Don Allingham <dallingham <at> gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 34091 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 25.2; save-buffer fails to save to an NFS drive in Emacs 25
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 08:48:58 -0700

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After some more investigation, it appears that the problem isn't NFS, but
rather verilog-mode.el. All of my verilog files were on the NFS partition,
while my files on the ext4 partition were not verilog files. Since this
isn't a standard mode, you can close this out and I will work with the
maintainer of verilog-mode.el on this issue.

Thanks.

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 2:13 PM Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> The symptoms you report are pretty strange, especially since I imagine
> lots of people have used Emacs 25 with NFS. I suggest trying again with
> Emacs 26.1 (the latest version). Another possibility is to run the
> command "strace -o $HOME/trace emacs" instead of "emacs", and then look
> at the system calls that Emacs is executing for your file.
>
>

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