Kate (KDE 4.3) Losing data on fish/ssh connection

Bug #413317 reported by john.morris
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
kdelibs
Fix Released
Medium
kde4libs (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Bug Description

I am using Kubuntu 9.04, and just upgraded the packages for KDE 4.3. I don't know if this is a problem because of the upgrade or not. Version info:

kate:
  Installed: 4:4.3.0-0ubuntu1~jaunty1~ppa1
  Candidate: 4:4.3.0-0ubuntu1~jaunty1~ppa1
  Version table:
 *** 4:4.3.0-0ubuntu1~jaunty1~ppa1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4:4.2.2-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages

My typical way of working on source code editing is to open Dolphin, then using the fish protocol to view source files on a remote computer and then select the files and open them in Kate, and then edit them. A typical Dolphin url would be:

fish://remotehostname/home/username/src/c++/programname

Opening and editing files works good. However after a few successful saves, Kate will then throw up a dialog box proclaiming:

Connection to host remotehostname is broken.

At this point, the source file on the remote host is now 0 bytes long. The connection to the remote host using SSH seems fine, as I'm logged onto the host using Konsole to compile and put the program into production, and I can still move around with dolphin and even open up more source files in kate, but if I try to do any more saves, the error message pops up and the source file on the remote host is truncated.

Revision history for this message
chemist109 (chemist109) wrote :

Fish:// was broken upstream. If / When Kubuntu developers make a new build, it should be fixed. Hope it's soon. In the meantime, you can use sftp:// instead. I don't like it as well since it seems to have more latency, but it does work.

Upstream bug report:

http://bugs.kde.org/189235

Revision history for this message
Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

Fixed in KDE 4.3.1.

affects: kdesdk-kde4 (Ubuntu) → kde4libs (Ubuntu)
Changed in kde4libs (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Fix Released
Changed in kdelibs:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
Changed in kdelibs:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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