Slackware 14.2 cp cannot stat file

colweb · 06-30-2017, 08:27 AM

Hi all,

Strange problem. I did install Slackware 14.2 on my laptop and changed default locale to en_US.UFT-8 (same as on my server, running Slackware 14.1).

Mounted a samba share: mount.cifs //server/data /mnt/hd

Then tried to copy a few files but got "cannot stat .... no such file or directory". Very strange as ls -l shows the files.

Did create a file with the same name on the laptop "index.html?key@view=1" and tried to copy it to the server. No problem at all.

Next I installed samba on the laptop and mounted a samba share from the server: mount.cifs //laptop/share /mnt/hd
Now I could copy the file without problem. So it seems that copying under Slack 14.1 gives no problems but with Slack 14.2 some files gives problems.

No idea why and no idea how to solve it.

kjhambrick · 06-30-2017, 08:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colweb

Hi all,

Did create a file with the same name on the laptop "index.html?key@view=1" and tried to copy it to the server. No problem at all.

colweb --

That's one ugly filename

Does this work ?

Code:

ls -la /mnt/hd/foo.txt                  # make sure that /mnt/hd/foo.txt does not exist.  If not ...
echo "test" > /mnt/hd/foo.txt           # change foo.txt to 'somethingelse' if foo.txt exists !
cp -a /mnt/hd/foo.txt /tmp/
cat /tmp/foo.txt

If so, at least you can focus on how to represent the 'ugly filenames' so that they work with the new Locale stuff in 14.2 ...

HTH

-- kjh

colweb · 06-30-2017, 09:35 AM

Hi kjhambrick,

No problem with that.

The strange thing is, I can copy the file from Slack 14.1 (the server) to Slack 14.2 (the laptop) with ftp.

After mounting the samba shares (on both the laptop and the server - same smb.conf) I can copy the file from the laptop to the server (done on the server) but not from the server to the laptop (done on the laptop). But I can copy it from the server to the laptop when done from the server.

But... the laptop does show the file(s) with ls -al.

When doing a stat index.html\?key@view=1 it gives:
File: 'index.html?key@view=1'
Size: 20599 Blocks: 2048 IO Block: 16384 regular file
Device: 1bh/27d Inode: 414 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2017-06-30 12:02:30.000000000 +0200
Modify: 2013-08-24 14:32:18.000000000 +0200
Change: 2017-06-24 12:15:55.000000000 +0200
Birth: -

kjhambrick · 06-30-2017, 09:50 AM

colweb --

I sometimes have to resort to ls -laQ to 'see' all the nasty squiggles and whatnots in Windows FileNames.

Maybe ls -laQ will quote the filename so you can grab it ?

Another thing I've had to do from time-to-time is change LC_ALL for a particular command ...

Code:

LC_ALL=C cp -p '/mnt/hd/index.html?key@view=1' /tmp/

All the possible values of LC_ALL can get icky with Mounted Windows Shares. It has always been hit-n-miss, but I've had best luck with the temporary LC_ALL=C invocation.

Another thing I've done when the Source Directory is not too huge is to stage the files on the linux box using rsync and then dispatch them from the local copy ...( not a great soulution )...

I am sure there is a better way ... something did definitely change on 14.2 but I can't put my finger on it.

Maybe another LQ Expert has a clue ?

-- kjh