Diagnosing .gvfs access failures.

[Jerry Amundson]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's the situation. F9, fully updated with updates-testing enabled.
> fresh boot.. login.. Connect to sftp server via Gnome's menu.
> ...time passes doing stuff... on the order of a few minutes

What is it you've connected to, and is there a router and/or firewall
in between?

> can no longer access files down in .gvfs.. get cryptic error when trying to
> access files:
>      .gvfs: Transport endpoint is not connected

Sounds as if something timed out the connection.

> So how do I go about getting more information as to the failure that is
> happening to .gvfs during "...time passes..."

tcpdump, probably.

jerry

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