Bug#451849: openoffice.org-gnome: wiping out contents of files on shared drives when opening

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Hi,

Tim Richardson wrote:
> When opening files on a shared folder (in one case, a Windows share, in 
> another case, a share from another Debian box) the file is zeroed out 
> when the file is opened. Irretrievable data loss. No warning. 
> Something to do with gnome Vfs perhaps. The error occurs in Writer and 
> Calc (the only two parts of openoffice.org I tested). 
> I saw this happen with a number of small documents that opened just fine 
> if they were first copied to the local hard drive.

And since when does that happen? With the upgrade to 2.3.0.dfsg-1 or
later or before it (i.e.. with 2.2.1-x or 2.3.0-x)?

Unfortunately I don't really have either nfs nor smb here to test
currently so...
I'll ask upstream whether this is known...

Regards,

Rene