fish:// broken after upgrade to 12.1
 

Hi
I regularly use fish:// from konqueror and kate for remote access and editing. After upgrading from 12.0 to 12.1 i permanently get:

An error occurred while loading fish://aunty@192.168.0.4:
The process for the fish://192.168.0.4 protocol died unexpectedly.

when trying to connect from the upgraded machine. It doesn't make any difference if i try to connect as a different user, or to a different machine.

When I sit at one of the other machines - which are still running 12.0 - i can connect to the 12.1 box perfectly well, as well as to other 12.0 machines.

any clues much appreciated,
aunty

You can try to comment all lines in ~/.ssh/known_hosts file.

nahh it's not that. i can do a normal ssh shell login from the 12.1 machine without any problems.

It's not really an answer to your question, but sshfs (available at slackbuilds.org) should allow you to achieve the same goal.

Brian

thanx for that brian. just got back to it. the sshfs works beautifully - .tgz available at linuxpackages.

fish:// still not working tho . . . odd !!

aunty

I'm no expert with fish, but what happens when you try fish://localhost?

Are you running the remote ssh daemon on a non-standard port?

Ahh . . good thought, but alas . . .

An error occurred while loading fish://localhost:
The process for the fish://localhost protocol died unexpectedly.

also, am using standard ports for everything.

is it slackware 12.1 stable or current version
I upgraded slackware 10.0 to 12.1 (stable) and fish:// in konqueror works here...
I deleted the old ~/.kde dir from 10.0 though (my /home is on separate partition so .kde was still here after the upgrade)

Im using 12.1 fully patched and fish works here. However, looks like this is a common problem for some folks:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145123

Just some more jabs in the dark:

1. Exit KDE/X and delete all ~/.DCOPserver* files.
2. Empty ~/.ICEauthority and ~.Xauthority (cat /dev/null > .ICEauthority)
3. While not in KDE/X, delete the cache files: ~/.kde/cache-$HOSTNAME/ksycoca
4. Temporarily rename ~/.kde to ~/.kde-old and then start KDE. This should expose whether the problem is related to your KDE settings.

One person suggested a work-around of setting the environment variable KDE_FORK_SLAVES=true.

I'm using 12.1 upgraded from 12.0 and fully patched, and fish isn't working for me. I didn't delete .kde though, so that's probably the problem. Since I'm not interested in fish at this moment I won't bother deleting or moving ~/.kde, but I will say that launching konqueror with
does allow fish to work.

Curiouser and curiouser. The fish protocol works for me (12.1/3.5.9) and I do not have the KDE_FORK_SLAVES environment variable set on my box.