Rename-and-overwrite doesn't work

dg · Post by dg » 17. Oct 2007, 15:14

I'm having severe problems trying to use svn or unison on a shared folder. I've managed to track it down to this:

$ touch x y
$ mv x y
mv: cannot move `x' to `y': Protocol error

Is there any way to make this work? It's a fairly severe violation of Posix file system semantics, and is causing lots of things to break...

michael · Post by **michael** » 17. Oct 2007, 18:36

At least your test and checking out using svn work with the development version. As far as I recall, all fixes were backported to version 1.5.2, so perhaps you could give that a try when it is released? (Should be in a week or two, although I can't give a definite date).

Miguel · Post by **Miguel** » 5. Dec 2007, 01:01

The problem is still present in 1.5.2. Is there an easy way of getting the fix without having to build the Windows VBox host?

michael · Post by **michael** » 7. Dec 2007, 15:03

Did you reinstall the guest additions from VirtualBox 1.5.2 when you updated? Note that there will be some additional fixes in 1.5.4.

Miguel · Post by **Miguel** » 7. Dec 2007, 19:59

I hadn't used VirtualBox before 1.5.2, so it was a clean install, not an update.

Miguel · Post by **Miguel** » 8. Dec 2007, 00:02

For the benefit of others who might have the same problem, I just realized that there is a pretty simple work-around: use Windows's sharing and mount the shared folder using CIFS. Surely not as efficient as using VBox's shared folders, but it works.