** Summary changed:
- Unable to unmount sftp
+ gvfs doesn't manage sftp and ftp backends properly
** Description changed:
+ Binary package hint: gvfs-backends
+
Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 amd64 / x86_64
alpha / beta updated
- I used places connect to server to connect to an sftp (SSH) connection.
- The first time it connected fine, but then all of the sudden it stopped
responding, I closed nautilus then.
+ Note: Everything below happens with ftp (with login) option as well.
+ Note 2: I think nautilus affects this bug as well. The weird thing about this
bug is that it doesn't happen always, therefore I also think nautilus (or
something) caches or stores the retrieved list of contents of the server
folder. Use a new username or server to test this, because when I re-added the
'connect to server', the new window and the connection were ok if I visited
previously browsed folders from previous connections, but when I went to a
folder or a username that I haven't visited or used before, the window or the
connection do not respond and the list of contents of the folder is not shown.
+ Note 3: As I stated in note 2, we have two situations, one with a greyed out
unresponsive window and one with a responsive window (being able to close
without force quit) but with a mouse pointer as waiting. From what I've
tested, they're randomly produced with the steps I explain below.
+ Note 4: If I hit ctrl-L and enter sftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/home/user/
everything is normal, I can also unmount it normally. Only sporadically do I
get an unresponsive greyed out window (see note 2). I have to kill the (two)
processes related to the sftp connection in order to use it.
+ Note 5: In my opinion, something goes wrong while it tries to get the list of
contents of a destination / folder.
- Now I can't unmount it. After some time I get an error saying this:
+ I used 'connect to server' to connect to an sftp (SSH) connection.
+ Menu Places Connect to Server
+ Type: SSH
+ Server: sftp.example.com
+ Port: (left blank)
+ Folder: /home/user
+ User name: user
+ Add bookmark: checked
+ Bookmark name: mysftp
+
+ When I hit the connect button, it pops up a new nautilus window, trying to
browse the sftp. That's when the problems appear, and I end up with an
unresponsive window, probably when it's trying to retrieve the folder's
contents. Sometimes the window can be closed (although the mouse pointer is
waiting), or I have to use the force quit option it gives me for nautilus,
see note 3.
+ That very first new window that is automatically opened after hitting the
connect button seems to mess up the whole connection.
+ I'm saying this because I killed the two processes related to this and
connected through the sftp bookmark, which was created previously (using
'connect to server'). I used the menu Places Bookmarks user (the name of
the bookmark), it opened a new window and I could browse my server with no
problems. This success could be related to a cached list of contents, see note
2.
+
+ Some errors I come accross:
+ 1) If I leave the window (with the mouse pointer as waiting) open for
several minutes, it eventually returns an error:
+ The folder contents could not be displayed.
+ Sorry, couldn't display all the contents of user: 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.
+
+ 2) Trying to unmount using the side pane, I right click on the sftp virtual
filesystem and select unmount. After some time I get an error saying this:
Unable to unmount sftp on example.com
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.
- Also, I can't connect to it either:
+ 3) If I close the nautilus window and open a new one, then double click on
the side pane to show the sftp:
Couldn't display sftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/.
Error: 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.
Please select another viewer and try again.
- Connecting to the server looks ok from the command line though:
+ Connecting to the server looks ok from the command line:
$ sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Connecting to example.com...
Password:
+ sftp ls
+ [...]
sftp
+
+ The connection is established as netstat outputs:
+ $ netstat -ep | grep ssh
+ tcp 0 0 ubuntu.local:43650 example.com:ssh ESTABLISHED user 151065 26425/ssh
+ $ ps ax | grep -i sftp
+ 26421 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-sftp --spawner :1.3
