Putty Breaks FireFTP If Firefox Is 64-bit

[CrYpTiC_MauleR]

Firefox : Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3pre) Gecko/20090801 Shiretoko/3.5.3pre
Putty : putty 0.60+2009-04-05-1ubuntu1
OS : Xubuntu 9.04 x64

If Firefox is 64-bit the FireFTP extension can not use Putty to connect to SSH. But if Firefox is 32-bit it allows it. It looks to be related to the following thread. Seems they got a fix for it so that it can work with both architectures. The thread should have enough info to add the fix to the Ubuntu repos, if not I can provide more.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18161&detail=1

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for the reference, but I'm afraid I don't see much useful
information in that thread. There's some stuff about getting it to build
on amd64 at all that's not relevant since putty already builds fine for
us, and there's some stuff to work around strict-aliasing warnings which
we've already independently done in Karmic (and you're apparently
running the Karmic package already). Beyond that I don't see anything
relevant to your report. If you have more information than that, please
do provide it.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Steve Romanow (slestak989)]

I fail to see how this is a putty unix problem. Why would we use plink or psftp on ubuntu?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Well, if nothing else, we ship them on Ubuntu, in the putty-tools package, and we shouldn't be rejecting bugs on programs we ship in Ubuntu on the basis that people shouldn't be using them! You might not have a use for them, but uses include:

  * http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#faq-unix-why

  * PSCP uses the SFTP protocol rather than the ancient rcp-inspired scp "protocol", which has many unfixable bugs, and so I can well believe that people might prefer it over scp. There's been some work in OpenSSH to turn sftp into a drop-in replacement for scp, but it hasn't landed yet.

[CrYpTiC_MauleR (crypticmauler)]

I'm sorry I can't help out with this issue anymore. I don't use FireFTP anymore, and also the motherboard died on my 64-bit laptop which this was occurring on so I have no way to test out 64-bit apps currently. This can be closed and re-opened if the issue arises with someone else, or I get access to a 64-bit system.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!