[Desktop-packages] [Bug 574693] Re: nautilus ftp file transfer hangs in lucid
Oh Ubuntu Devs! Harken to my appeal! Have mercy! Please include gvfs 1.9.4 in Oneiric! I feel that including this fix will deliver lots of "bang for the buck," because it will kill two birds with one stone, and thereby avoid these two "embarrassments": 1) Ubuntu not having any working graphical FTP client in it's default install (that I'm aware of), which many might find appalling and frustrating 2) If people try the obvious workaround of installing Thunar to get a working graphical FTP client (which seems to me a logical second choice, because Thunar can honour many of the same "Bookmarks" as in Nautilus), then they'll quickly and easily fall into Ubuntu Bug 751374 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/exo/+bug/751374), whereby they can't even open files in their Dash any more (nor from Firefox's "Downloads" window)! Although a fix for that bug is proposed (yet not yet included in Oneiric either), once one falls prey to that bug, it's is a relatively nasty and tedious problem to get out of (granted they even find their way to the bug report where a manual fix is detailed) just to get the Dash and Firefox to properly open files again. In summary, I feel this bug should have a higher priority, because people might easily fall into Bug 751374 because of this bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/574693 Title: nautilus ftp file transfer hangs in lucid Status in Nautilus: Fix Released Status in “gvfs” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: nautilus 1) Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Release: 10.04 Description: Ubuntu 11.04 Release: 11.04 2) nautilus version: 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu4; 1:2.32.2.1-0ubuntu13 gvfs version: 1.8.0-0ubuntu2 3) I tried to copy a directory with files from a server to my PC via FTP. I expected finishing the transfer. 4) The file transfer window appears and after a few percent of progress, it stops copying. I can not close the window, because when I click the cancel button, it goes to gray and nothing happens after that, so I have to kill the nautilus process. When I had tried to copy the same directory again, it stopped at the same percent of progress. Copying the same directory in nautilus via SFTP works flawlessly. Also copying that directory by gFTP works without problem. I did not see any error messages or entries in syslog related to this problem. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: nautilus 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon May 3 20:23:35 2010 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=hu_HU.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: nautilus To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/574693/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 574693] Re: nautilus ftp file transfer hangs in lucid
Chris: please pardon my lack of experience in this, but I noticed that on the "All software packages for Oneiric" page: http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/allpackages ...that gfvs is listed as 1.9.3. Does this mean that this bug fix will probably only make it into Oneric + 1? In other words, is it too late for a bug fix such as this to get into Oneiric? Perhaps a better question is this: when a bug like this gets marked as "Fix Released," does that generally mean the fix will only make it's way into one of two versions of Ubuntu in the Future (unless i'ts a security fix, in which case it would be released into the latest, current release of Ubuntu?) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/574693 Title: nautilus ftp file transfer hangs in lucid Status in Nautilus: Fix Released Status in “gvfs” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: nautilus 1) Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Release: 10.04 Description: Ubuntu 11.04 Release: 11.04 2) nautilus version: 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu4; 1:2.32.2.1-0ubuntu13 gvfs version: 1.8.0-0ubuntu2 3) I tried to copy a directory with files from a server to my PC via FTP. I expected finishing the transfer. 4) The file transfer window appears and after a few percent of progress, it stops copying. I can not close the window, because when I click the cancel button, it goes to gray and nothing happens after that, so I have to kill the nautilus process. When I had tried to copy the same directory again, it stopped at the same percent of progress. Copying the same directory in nautilus via SFTP works flawlessly. Also copying that directory by gFTP works without problem. I did not see any error messages or entries in syslog related to this problem. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: nautilus 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon May 3 20:23:35 2010 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=hu_HU.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: nautilus To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/574693/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 574693] Re: nautilus ftp file transfer hangs in lucid
Another workaround which is more Gnome-esque (than Dolphin) is to install thunar, and libdesktop-agnostic-vfs-thunar. The relevance to this bug is this: perhaps some developer (which I'm not) might want to look over the FTP-related code in libdesktop- agnostic-vfs-thunar, and perhaps use it somehow in Nautilus' corresponding VFS-related code. Pardon me being a bit off-topic here, but for those who care about the getting fastest file transfer speed on their LAN, and less about tight- security-within-the-LAN, Thunar gave the fastest bulk FTP transfers I've ever seen (connecting to a pure-ftpd server), even 25% faster than doing the exact same bulk FTP copying within Filezilla. My test data was about 5300 files, most are small documents, 1.4 GB, transferred on a gigabit LAN). Compare FTP-within-Thunar to having the same data transferred using SMB (through Nautilus), and SSH/SFTP (through Nautilus) took 134% longer, and 349% longer, respectively. FTP-within- Thunar beat the pants off SMB-within-Nautilus and SFTP-within-Nautilus for speed, when it came to a larger set of small files. Before flaming me, I feel it's highly relevant to mention these informal stats to underscore the point that in fixing this bug, greatly increased file transfer speed is won (within the LAN, where FTP still has usefulness) for Ubuntu as a whole (as installed by default). Like over twice as fast (even for large collections of tiny files, which usually transfer much more slowly than equivalent amount of larger files), compared to SMB file transfers! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/574693 Title: nautilus ftp file transfer hangs in lucid Status in Nautilus: In Progress Status in “gvfs” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: nautilus 1) Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Release: 10.04 Description: Ubuntu 11.04 Release: 11.04 2) nautilus version: 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu4; 1:2.32.2.1-0ubuntu13 gvfs version: 1.8.0-0ubuntu2 3) I tried to copy a directory with files from a server to my PC via FTP. I expected finishing the transfer. 4) The file transfer window appears and after a few percent of progress, it stops copying. I can not close the window, because when I click the cancel button, it goes to gray and nothing happens after that, so I have to kill the nautilus process. When I had tried to copy the same directory again, it stopped at the same percent of progress. Copying the same directory in nautilus via SFTP works flawlessly. Also copying that directory by gFTP works without problem. I did not see any error messages or entries in syslog related to this problem. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: nautilus 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon May 3 20:23:35 2010 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=hu_HU.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: nautilus To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/574693/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 574693] Re: nautilus ftp file transfer hangs in lucid
I'm using 11.04 Natty, and I can confirm this bug still happens. It doesn't matter which particular ftp server is running on the server: wether it's wu-ftpd, pure-ftpd, wzdftpd or vsftpd, the bug happens in virtually exactly the same way. I've tried them all (thinking it might be their fault somehow). And I can confirm that FileZilla can do bulk file transfers with no problems, connecting to those same servers. So the problem clearly lies with Nautilus' VFS subsystem, as it handles bulk FTP file transfers. Please fix this, since fast (i.e. faster than SFTP), easy file transfers on a LAN (where encrypting connection authentication isn't all that crucial, thanks to the protection from the internet by a firewall) are in my opinion *a basic office necessity*. It would be a pity to have to rely on ancient, sometimes-inconsistent Microsoft-designed SMB networking (ie. creating file shares using nautilus-share), when an FTP daemon + avahi-daemon can do it better and faster, sticking to good-old TCP/IP. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/574693 Title: nautilus ftp file transfer hangs in lucid Status in Nautilus: In Progress Status in “gvfs” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: nautilus 1) Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Release: 10.04 Description: Ubuntu 11.04 Release: 11.04 2) nautilus version: 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu4; 1:2.32.2.1-0ubuntu13 gvfs version: 1.8.0-0ubuntu2 3) I tried to copy a directory with files from a server to my PC via FTP. I expected finishing the transfer. 4) The file transfer window appears and after a few percent of progress, it stops copying. I can not close the window, because when I click the cancel button, it goes to gray and nothing happens after that, so I have to kill the nautilus process. When I had tried to copy the same directory again, it stopped at the same percent of progress. Copying the same directory in nautilus via SFTP works flawlessly. Also copying that directory by gFTP works without problem. I did not see any error messages or entries in syslog related to this problem. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: nautilus 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon May 3 20:23:35 2010 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=hu_HU.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: nautilus To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/574693/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
