Re: "Invalid Parameters" error from Nautilus on drag-n-drop to floppy

From: Dean Mellas (WhoAmI_at_WhereAmI.Net)
Date: 08/18/03 

Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 23:05:19 GMT

Yes, I have also had this problem with Red Hat 9 (on every machine that
has it installed, and these are at several different businesses) using
Gnome and drag-n-drop. Sometimes the data is copied anyway. I never
have any problems with the CLI. I think it is Gnome and Nautilus, but
KDE doesn't work perfectly either.

I have posted the problem differently however:

I have noticed that removable drives remain BUSY too - even if you close
all applications, exit Gnome and logout - something is really wrong.
These two problems seem to be related, but you probably won't notice the
latter because you can always eject a floppy mechanically. Try to do
the same with a superdisk or Zip disk. When you encounter this problem,
you won't be able to eject the drive unless you force an umount as root
or (God no...) reboot. Even the shutdown has trouble dismounting the
removable media when this occures. I've seen the BUSY problem posted
several times - with no answers (people think the user must have some
app open accessing the drive). There was even a FAQ titled "Why can't I
  eject my removable drive" that restates that some application may be
accessing the drive - including Nautilus - end of FAQ. But clearly,
there is a problem that hasn't yet been addressed with the RH9 desktops.

Jeffrey Silverman wrote:
> I hate floppies, really, I do. But sometimes my wife needs to use 'em...
>
> I am using RHL9. Upon dragging-n-dropping files to a properly mounted
> floppy from home directoy (or any directory) I get the error "Invalid
> Parameters while copying -- Skip Cancel Retry"
>
> 1) Has anyone else seen this? Have you fixed it?
> 2) I *know* that (a)the floppy is mounted properly and (b) the floppy is
> writeable by the account that is doing the drag-n-drop becasue the CLI
> command "cp" works fine.
>
> Please help!! I *don't* want to install Windows on this computer!!!!!
>
> thanks!

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