This bug is extremely annoying to me when performing certain operations. Is there anything I can do to help fix it? I also get it using FTP, windows shares, and in fact, any sort of GVFS connection.
To create the problem, I just do the following: 1. Add a new network server connection through the 'Connect to Server' dialog. 2. Add a bookmark 3. Provide credentials, and choose 'remember forever' (it doesn't matter if you choose another option). 4. Browse to nautilus bookmark. Now, you can open files, copy, save, and things work fine. 5. Leave connection open (a few minutes is usually enough for many servers, depending on settings) I, and many other people do this all the time - for instance when doing webdesign, development and so on, I like to be able to work directly on the server over SSH or FTP. Not an unusual use case. 6. Try to save, browse or open a new Nauiltus window to the GVFS location. You will receive: Could not open location 'sftp://......' DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. The desired behaviour is for this error to be handled, and the connection automatically created. Nautilus already has the credentials - there isn't a use case I can see where this error is useful to anything but irritating the user... We should *expect* connections to be broken - for instance over wifi, or with other unreliable network connections. It is not an unusual occurrence to lose connection to the server for any number of reasons. Providing this doesn't actually happen whilst copying a file, saving etc, then it should be easy enough to automatically reconnect, and drop the existing connection. In fact, even if it drops a connection whilst copying or saving, it would be possible to attempt a reconnection with a user prompt. It makes much better sense than throwing an ugly error for no good reason :) I am happy to help resolve this - it's ultimately very annoying for a great many people I imagine... I will take a look at the code, and see if I can understand it well enough to contribute that way. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/377322 Title: my sftp conncection breaks spontaneously after a while, I have to re- login to fix it. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/377322/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
