I'm running Debian on VMWare Player on an XP SP3 host. I'm using VMWare's folder share. I'm running jetty on Debian, and editing files in Windows.
I have the following stange behavior:
Jetty is running
I edit a javascript file (that's being served by jetty) in a editor in Windows, and hit save.
I reload the webpage in a browser, and it's corrupted. My changes are not in the JS file, but this character: � (question mark in a diamond) shows up at the end of the file, once for each character added (so the browser can't load the file).
A few other things to note:
a) When jetty is not running, files do not get corrupted
b) changes to the JS file from within the VM do not get corrupted, and can be seen in Windows
c) it looks a lot like this problem: MSFT, but that is only applicable to SP2, and the hotfixes wont run on SP3
d) I get the same problem if I share the folder in windows and then 'mount' it from Linux (with the VMW folder share turned off)
e) I didnt have this problem a few days ago - it was working fine for several weeks
f) I tried removing all recent Windows updated - that didnt help.
g) I have the latest build of VMWare Player.
I know it's a long shot, but anyone got any ideas on how I can fix this? (the long term solution is to get off Windows, I know.... Oh! I know..)
thanks
tom