Nautilus FTP adds space before some filenames on some servers

[jbooth]

Binary package hint: nautilus

This is on Karmic - 9.10

For months, I've been using Nautilus to browse an FTP connection to an AIX server. Since upgrading to 9.10 last week, It's been padding a large percent of the file and directory names with a leading space.

When I try to open these directories, I get "Sorry, could not display all the contents of " DIRNAME" The file is not a directory"

For files, in gedit, I get "Could not open the file ftp://...%20FILENAME. You do not have the permissions necessary to open the file."

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[jbooth (jbooth-loyno)]

reported @ https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601583

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for sending the bug to GNOME

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Reassigning to match the product of the upstream bug.

[jpfle (jpfle)]

According to the upstream report, I reassign the bug to gvfs.

[jbooth (jbooth-loyno)]

For anyone still looking into this, we've recently notices this same problem with a few other FTP programs and discovered that on AIX, ls -l and ls through FTP show the date and time of a file if it is less than 6 months old. Older files get the time is replaced with the year. e.g.:

drwxr-sr-x 5 nobody nogroup 256 Jun 30 10:51 bulletin
drwxr-sr-x 6 nobody nogroup 256 Nov 06 2009 cfi
drwxr-xr-x 6 nobody nogroup 256 Jan 15 2010 wpc

In this directory, Nautilus will only show the file with the time correctly. The other two have the problem with the leading space. It seems like somehow when Nautilus is parsing the ls output, that the extra space is coming from the end of the date columns somehow.

[jbooth (jbooth-loyno)]

A co-worker of mine was looking into why other people in our office using Dreamweaver weren't having this problem and found this:

6. Specific FTP server issues

Macromedia has created a Dreamweaver MX 2004 extension for both Windows and Macintosh that resolves some FTP conflicts with IBM AIX and OS/400 servers. You should only install this extension if you are connecting to an IBM AIX or OS/400 server. Symptoms of the problem include:
Access Denied errors when attempting to access files or folders older than the current calendar year.
"Dreamweaver cannot determine the remote server time" errors and the Synchronize function not working.
Incorrect information in the Files panel, like extra spaces, junk characters, wrong kind of information in a particular field, etc. (Ref. 169317).

[Danna Gifford (dannagifford)]

This bug still exists in Ubuntu 11.10 for an AIX server. I can confirm jbooth's (#6) post that the "added space" problem only exists for files old files--new files behave as expected.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue has been fixed upstream with https://git.gnome.org/browse/gvfs/commit/?id=c2546d4732c97c46d4c1a826b1b2c84855587ea4