Bug 199136 - FTP crashes on sub-directories
Summary: FTP crashes on sub-directories
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: unknown
Classification: Bugzilla Internals
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR crash
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list
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Reported: 2009-07-06 11:51 UTC by REC
Modified: 2009-07-07 14:47 UTC (History)
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Description REC 2009-07-06 11:51:30 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.4)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

Filezilla, gftp, and Kftp all crash when downloading a directory that contains sub-directories. Jftp does NOT! I assume this is due to Jftp's use of Sun's Java rather than KDE libs.
Comment 1 REC 2009-07-06 11:52:19 UTC
What I mean by crash is that the gui vanishes without any error report screen from KDE. So I cannot provide a backtrace.
Comment 2 REC 2009-07-06 11:56:28 UTC
Sorry, my KDE version is different. 
It is 4.2.95 (KDE 4.2.95 (KDE 4.3 RC1)) "release 139
I forgot that I had added Kontact, which required an update to some KDE system files and dumped nearly every living KDE program when I did that. :-/
Comment 3 Dario Andres 2009-07-07 01:14:49 UTC
Just to clarify:
Filezilla and gftp do not use KDELIBS, I don't know about KFtp but it could be use it proper implementation. (where do you get it ?, I only know about "KFtpGrabber" )
Thanks
Comment 4 REC 2009-07-07 09:01:22 UTC
KftpGrabber is the long name. All three crash in exactly the same manner on exactly the same items. However, Jftp didn't. My host provider and I have wrestled with this issue for months now. I gave up for awhile. Only yesterday did I try KftpGrabber and Jftp. I have read other issues with Ftp here in KDE. Is there some rationale behind what I've discovered in these programs handling large numbers of files in sub-directories?
Comment 5 Dario Andres 2009-07-07 11:34:54 UTC
If you use Konqueror to access the FTP site, does it works ?
Thanks
Comment 6 REC 2009-07-07 13:48:12 UTC
Access isn't the problem. The problem is that when I ask the program to download a directory that contains many sub-directories and files it closes without warning. I'll try it with Konqueror directly.
Comment 7 REC 2009-07-07 13:50:54 UTC
First and second tries yielded:

The requested operation could not be completed
Request Aborted By User
Details of the Request:
URL: ftp://recraig2.com
Protocol: ftp
Date and Time: Tuesday 07 July 2009 01:49 pm
Additional Information: recraig2.com
Description:
The request was not completed because it was aborted.
Possible Solutions:
Retry the request.

I didn't do anything after hitting enter.
Comment 8 REC 2009-07-07 13:54:12 UTC
Ah, that was my fault... wrong password. But why didn't it report that to me? That is a serious oversight. An average user would not understand why.
Comment 9 Dario Andres 2009-07-07 14:01:16 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> Ah, that was my fault... wrong password. But why didn't it report that to me?
> That is a serious oversight. An average user would not understand why.

You could file another bug report for that.

Thanks
Comment 10 REC 2009-07-07 14:04:16 UTC
I dragged and dropped the folder choosing copy and I have two info windows
telling me I am copying twice. One is stuck at 0B/s and 0B, the other at 0B/s
and 898.9B. They hung for awhile and now read finished. However, the sizes did
not change. What gives! The subdirectories have been copied, but no files.
Weird! The folder reads 424.0 K, 1 file, 105 sub-folders. On the server the
folder reads 794.6K, 172 files, 80 sub-folders. This is very interesting. There
are fewer sub-folders on the server than were created during the transfer. I
had made sure there was no existing folder by that same name as the mother
folder I was copying before I copied it. Bizarre!
 I refreshed and this time the folder on the server reads 1.7M, 550 files, 114 sub-folders. I wonder what I'll get next time I refresh.
Comment 11 Dario Andres 2009-07-07 14:05:33 UTC
Is that description related to Konqueror ?Thanks
Comment 12 REC 2009-07-07 14:06:57 UTC
(In reply to comment #11)
> Is that description related to Konqueror ?Thanks

Window reads at top "Properties for administrator - Konqueror"
The folder I am copying is a Joomla folder named "administrator".
Comment 13 REC 2009-07-07 14:07:30 UTC
This time with refresh 874.3K, 190 files, 78 sub-folders.
Comment 14 Dario Andres 2009-07-07 14:12:18 UTC
Ok, let's order this report.
The first thing you reported: several ftp applications vanishing, are not related with KDE. As Konqueror is not crashing. 
We still have this weird behaviour, so I encourage you to file a bug report against Konqueror explaining the behaviour you got.
I'm closing this report as INVALID as it is mixed and the original reported problem is unrelated to KDE official ftp support.
Thanks
Comment 15 REC 2009-07-07 14:44:01 UTC
Ok, do you think this might due to an FTP module, perhaps? Can you give me some idea where to go with the original problem?

Btw, thank you so much for working with me. You are quite professional and I appreciate that. I have presented problems in the OpenSuSE forums only to be called a liar or stupid, ridiculed and harassed with no hope of troubleshooting to see where the problem lies with issues. Thank you for a breath of fresh air.

I'll file the report on KftpGrabber.
Comment 16 REC 2009-07-07 14:47:37 UTC
Sorry, I mean on Konqueror.