@acabre and @tim pezarro: Both of your strace files suggest the the problem is the same as the one that I fixed in a patch for the Intrepid package in 2008. Please try these packages for 9.10:
i386: https://launchpad.net/~racb/+archive/fixes/+files/gedit_2.28.0-0ubuntu2~basak1_i386.deb amd64: https://launchpad.net/~racb/+archive/fixes/+files/gedit_2.28.0-0ubuntu2~basak1_amd64.deb -- gedit fails to save files over smbfs/cifs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/34813 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs