Bug#284509: libgnomevfs2-common: fails to connect to ssh server

[Jean-Christophe Dubacq]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 04:41:31PM +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 10:30:19PM +0100, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote:
> > in its current version, when I choose in nautilus to connect to a
> > server, and choose ssh as the server type (which I presume refers to
> > sftp), and then select any of my usual ssh/sftp target hosts (with or
> > without changing the username), including in the test list the name of
> > my host, no connection occurs (mounting of the pseudo-volume happens,
> > but when trying to open it, a popup says "Click to cancel" but nothing
> > happens, and network capture show no network flow to the target host).
> 
> Does gnomevfs-ls sftp://<yourhost> reveal anything usefull ?

Now, yes. Actually, now, everything works fine. I am now up to gnome-vfs
2.8.3-9, I was at 2.8.3-6 at the time. The oops of unstable, I presume.
I do not recall everything special I did to solve this (beyond usual
upgrades), but I have been hacking a lot recently. You may seriously
consider closing this bug.

> > Btw, there is no /usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libssh.so which did
> > exist in former versions. But as there is a libsftp, I presume this is
> > just a name change.
> 
> $ cat /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/default-modules.conf| grep sftp
> sftp: sftp
> ssh: sftp
> 
> Both ssh:// and sftp:// are handled by the sftp module these days..
OK.