Nautilus, SSH: "Generic Error" while moving/copying file

[seanh]

Open a remote folder via SSH with nautilus.

Open another remote folder.

Drag and drop a file from one remote folder to the other.

Get a "generic error". Screenshot to be attached.

Cut and pasting the file produced the same error. I was able to move it successfully by copy and pasting and then deleting it from the original folder.

The bug only occurs with certain combinations of folders. For example, I can drag-drop fine between <email address hidden>/home/username and <email address hidden>/home/username /subfolder or vice versa, but the error occurs when drag-dropping between for example <email address hidden>/home/username /subfolder and <email address hidden>/public/homepages/username/

I think the two folders in the last example may be on different partitions in the remote account.

[seanh (seanh)]

Screenshot of the error message.

[Chris Wagner (chris-wagner)]

I'm seeing (essentially) the same error under Edgy when trying to copy a file, within a single, ssh-mounted folder. E.g., I'm trying to copy a file at ssh://<email address hidden>/path/to/dir/file.tmpl by a simple Ctrl+C -> Ctrl+V. If I log into the server via the command line, `cd` to the directory, and `cp file.tmpl file2.tmpl` the file copies as expected, so this is almost certainly a Gnome/Nautilus problem.

The error I'm getting is the same as that seen by chombee, except that it says "while copying" rather than "while moving".

I've seen this problem (or a similar one) several times, seemingly randomly.

[Chris Wagner (chris-wagner)]

Also, this looks similar to bug 9247.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Does gnomevfs-mv works fine for that?

[Chris Wagner (chris-wagner)]

On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 10:14 +0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Does gnomevfs-mv works fine for that?

Okay, I just tried several things. These all work okay:
 - gnomevfs-copy /
     ssh://cwagner@server/path/to/dir/briefcase.tmpl /
     ssh://cwagner@server/path/to/dir/survey.tmpl
 - gnomevfs-copy /
     ssh://cwagner@server/path/to/dir/survey.tmpl /
     ssh://cwagner@server/path/to/dir/survey.tmpl.bak
 - via Nautilus, moving *or* copying the file to *another directory*.
For example, if I am sitting in ssh://cwagner@server/path/to/dir/ and
select file.tmpl and hit Ctrl+C, then move up a directory to
ssh://cwagner@server/path/to/ and paste by hitting Ctrl+V, all works
okay. I can even *re-paste* over the file and I get a reasonable dialog
warning me: "A file named "groups.tmpl" already exists. Do you want to
replace it?"

So, in my case, the problem seems to only occur when trying to copy a
file and paste a copy back into the same directory in which the original
exists. What do I expect to happen? I expect to get a copy of the file
with a new name (e.g., "my-file.txt (Copy)") as happens when copying a
file, using the same technique, within a local directory.

[Chris Wagner (chris-wagner)]

On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 20:56 +0000, Chris Wagner wrote:
> - gnomevfs-copy /
> ssh://cwagner@server/path/to/dir/briefcase.tmpl /
> ssh://cwagner@server/path/to/dir/survey.tmpl
> - gnomevfs-copy /
> ssh://cwagner@server/path/to/dir/survey.tmpl /
> ssh://cwagner@server/path/to/dir/survey.tmpl.bak

Oops - sorry, the second of those should be:
 - gnomevfs-mv /
     ssh://cwagner@server/path/to/dir/survey.tmpl /
     ssh://cwagner@server/path/to/dir/survey.tmpl.bak

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've forwarded that upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389724

[Chris Moore (dooglus)]

The cause of this bug is that:

In package "libgnomevfs2-0",
file "modules/sftp-method.c",
function "do_create"
returns GNOME_VFS_ERROR_GENERIC instead of GNOME_VFS_ERROR_FILE_EXISTS
when the file to create already exists, and argument "exclusive" is true.

If it returned GNOME_VFS_ERROR_FILE_EXISTS, then nautilus would try other file names like "file (copy).txt", "file (another copy).txt" and such like.

[Chris Moore (dooglus)]

This patch fixes the problem, but isn't the correct solution. It does demonstrate where the problem lies, however.

[Chris Moore (dooglus)]

This should be filed against the "gnome-vfs2" package, not nautilus.

[Chris Moore (dooglus)]

This patch does what's right, checking whether the file really does exist before using the GNOME_VFS_ERROR_FILE_EXISTS return value.

[davie (daviemoston)]

gnome-vfs is being replaced with gvfs in ubuntu hardy (8.04).
Any chance you could test this to check to see if it still occurs in the latest hardy beta (http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/hardy/beta)?

[Chris Wagner (chris-wagner)]

I can't really perform a controlled test, but doing a simple copy-and-paste -- across SSH, within a single directory, in Hardy -- seems to work okay. I'll go ahead and close this...

[seanh (seanh)]

I just repeated the test case I gave when I reported the bug, and it works now, no error.