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Bug 690133 - X server crashes when sftp connection is missing
X server crashes when sftp connection is missing
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Crashers
3.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal critical
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-12-12 23:46 UTC by Freefri
Modified: 2021-06-18 15:17 UTC
See Also:
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Description Freefri 2012-12-12 23:46:19 UTC 
Operative system:
I'm now reporting the bug under Fedora 17, but I also try it under Ubuntu 11.10

Introduction:
I have a server at home with Debian 6.0.6 stable. I use to connect to it in 2 ways from my work place:
 - ssh-client from gnome-terminal
 - sftp from nautilus
I have a domain for this server. I have a cron script to update the public IP of the server with my dDNS because I have dynamic IP at home. This script is launched by cron and it make a log in the system each time the public IP changes. 

What happend:
Each time my ISP decide to change the IP of my server, if I'm connected with nautilus using sftp, my X crashes.
Then, I have to go to a terminal ctrl+alt+Fx and restart the graphical environment.
Then, I decide to log in my server with ssh and check the log and all the times this happend my public IP changed that minute. 

This happend to me more then 20 times under Ubuntu and Fedora. I think is a problem from nautilus, because it never happend to me when I was connected just with ssh and not with sftp.
Comment 1 Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (nacho) 2012-12-19 14:58:44 UTC 
Raising to critical as it is a crash.
Comment 2 Michael Mercier 2013-02-28 16:12:20 UTC 
I have the same problem with an SFTP connection. I was directly connected to an other computer using this url:
 sftp://goofy@10.42.0.1/home/goofy

When I shutdown this computer the screen freeze.

I have the same problem when editing a new folder name. See Bug 694878.
Comment 3 André Klapper 2021-06-18 15:17:59 UTC 
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent
and supported software version of Files (nautilus), then please follow
  https://wiki.gnome.org/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines
and create a new ticket at
  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/

Thank you for your understanding and your help.