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Bug 656236 - gvfsd-ftp hangs when trying to mount ftp location
gvfsd-ftp hangs when trying to mount ftp location
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gvfs
Classification: Core
Component: ftp backend
1.7.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gvfs-maint
gvfs-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-08-09 19:19 UTC by Nikolay S.
Modified: 2011-08-23 11:34 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

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gvfsd-ftp backtrace (10.26 KB, text/plain)
2011-08-09 19:19 UTC, Nikolay S. 		Details

Description Nikolay S. 2011-08-09 19:19:58 UTC 
Created attachment 193500 [details]
gvfsd-ftp backtrace

I have a problem mounting ftp locations, i.e.
gvfs-mount ftp://ftp.gnome.org
hangs for 10 minutes and then dies with timeout error message.

Backtrace of gvfsd-ftp shows, that it hangs on connect operation. At the same time, opening location from ftp client works fine, so the network is operational.

There is another "hint". When doing strace of gvfsd with strace -f -p `pidof gvfsd` in another terminal, gvfs-mount does not hang and the location gets mounted correctly.

I'm not alone with this problem (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375101)

These are the version numbers:
gvfs: 1.7.3
glib: 2.28.8
gconf: 2.32.4
orbit: 2.14.19
libproxy: 0.4.6
Comment 1 Tomas Bzatek 2011-08-22 15:31:25 UTC 
This looks like a deadlock in GSettings' GConf backend. Please note this backend should only be used for transitioning from old configuration. Please emerge dconf and set it as default backend (that should be automatic, I guess there's a bidding process). This can be also overriden by the GSETTINGS_BACKEND env var.

Please test and let me know the result.
Comment 2 Nikolay S. 2011-08-22 18:21:27 UTC 
That helped, thanks.
Comment 3 Tomas Bzatek 2011-08-23 11:34:31 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> That helped, thanks.

OK, closing this as WONTFIX. Would be great to mention this in Gnome Upgrade Guide or similar document for Gentoo users. This applies for Gnome 2.32 as well, some applications were already ported those days.