Bug 688378 – xfce-base/thunar-1.6.17 ignore null value for destination write attribute

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: UNCONFIRMED ---

[Description Nikolay Kichukov 2019-06-20 10:36:44 UTC]

Under specific circumstances, xfce-base/thunar-1.6.17 may be unable to transfer files to gvfs mount, ie SMB but is able to create new directories and files. The error that is printed is: "the destination is read-only", where it is not. Copying to: '/var/run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:share=XXX' works, but Thunar drag and drop or copy does not.

The attached is a backported batch from Thunar 18.4 from:
https://gitlab.manjaro.org/packages/extra/xfce/thunar-gtk3/blob/270f0c86629e31245034bcdc448561e5aefec882/0001-ignore-null-value-for-destination-write-attribute.patch

which does solve the problem on xfce-base/thunar-1.6.17.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a CIFS share on Windows 10
2. In Thunar, navigate to: smb://DOMAIN;username@IP/SHARENAME
3. Attempt to copy a file and observe how Thunar fails with 'the destination is read-only'
Actual Results:  
I was not able to transfer files to the share in Thunar.

Expected Results:  
Be able to transfer files to the share as it is mounted by gvfs in read-write mode.

Apply the attached patch.
Thunar flags:
 * Found these USE flags for xfce-base/thunar-1.6.17:
 U I
 + + dbus               : Enable dbus support for anything that needs it (gpsd, gnomemeeting, etc)
 + + exif               : Add support for reading EXIF headers from JPEG and TIFF images
 + + libnotify          : Enable desktop notification support
 + + pcre               : Add support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
 - - test               : Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)
 + + trash-panel-plugin : Build the trash status indicator plugin for the XFCE panel
 + + udisks             : Enable storage management support (automounting, volume monitoring, etc)

[Comment 1 Nikolay Kichukov 2019-06-20 10:38:52 UTC]

Created attachment 580216 [details, diff]
suggested patch that allows Thunar to transfer files into the gvfs mount

This patch was backported from:
https://gitlab.manjaro.org/packages/extra/xfce/thunar-gtk3/blob/270f0c86629e31245034bcdc448561e5aefec882/0001-ignore-null-value-for-destination-write-attribute.patch

Perhaps worth applying this to the latest 1.8 ebuild too.