nautilus: Does not handle connect to server well (error messages) if no host or no network connection

Bug #1239300 reported by Phil Wyett
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

nautilus: Does not handle connect to server well (error messages) if no host or no network connection.

As an example. Try via 'Connect to Server' and attempt to make an SSH connection with no networking enabled.

See attached screenshot for error message.

This message is not informative or elegant and should be better.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.8.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 13 10:18:08 2013
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'maximized' b'true'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'202'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-12 (31 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-09-12 (31 days ago)

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Phil Wyett (u-k-i-t) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Ads20000 (ads20000) wrote :

The error is now (on 17.10):

```
Unable to access location
Hostname not known
```

On 13.10 it said:

```
Oops! Something went wrong.
Unhandled error message: SSH program unexpectedly exited
```

I think the new error message is more informative so I'm going to mark this Fix Released. Please revert to New if you disagree.

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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