Index: gedit/gedit-document-saver.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gnome/gedit/gedit/gedit-document-saver.c,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -p -r1.5 gedit-document-saver.c
--- gedit/gedit-document-saver.c	1 Feb 2006 08:32:36 -0000	1.5
+++ gedit/gedit-document-saver.c	30 Mar 2006 18:42:27 -0000
@@ -663,6 +663,8 @@ save_existing_local_file (GeditDocumentS
 		/* move away old backups */
 		if (!remove_file (backup_filename))
 		{
+			g_print ("Failed unlink!\n");
+
 			/* we don't care about which was the problem, just
 			 * that a backup was not possible.
 			 */
@@ -680,6 +682,8 @@ save_existing_local_file (GeditDocumentS
 
 		if (bfd == -1)
 		{
+			g_print ("Failed open!\n");
+
 			g_set_error (&saver->priv->error,
 				     GEDIT_DOCUMENT_ERROR,
 				     GEDIT_DOCUMENT_ERROR_CANT_CREATE_BACKUP,
@@ -692,12 +696,15 @@ save_existing_local_file (GeditDocumentS
 		 * original file. If this fails, set the protection
 		 * bits for the group same as the protection bits for
 		 * others. */
-		if (fchown (bfd, (uid_t) -1, statbuf.st_gid) != 0)
+		if ((getgid () != statbuf.st_gid) &&
+		    (fchown (bfd, (uid_t) -1, statbuf.st_gid) != 0))
 		{
 			if (fchmod (bfd,
 			            (statbuf.st_mode& 0707) |
 			            ((statbuf.st_mode & 07) << 3)) != 0)
 			{
+				g_print ("Failed chmod!\n");
+
 				g_set_error (&saver->priv->error,
 					     GEDIT_DOCUMENT_ERROR,
 					     GEDIT_DOCUMENT_ERROR_CANT_CREATE_BACKUP,
@@ -712,6 +719,8 @@ save_existing_local_file (GeditDocumentS
 
 		if (!copy_file_data (saver->priv->fd, bfd, NULL))
 		{
+				g_print ("Failed copy!\n");
+
 				g_set_error (&saver->priv->error,
 					     GEDIT_DOCUMENT_ERROR,
 					     GEDIT_DOCUMENT_ERROR_CANT_CREATE_BACKUP,