[tahoe-dev] Bug in SFTP frontend

[Jody Harris]

Apparently something was stuck in a cache somewhere.

David-Sarah: It works!

I can read files in the root directory of an alias!

jody
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On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Jody Harris <imhavoc at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:48 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood <
> david-sarah at jacaranda.org> wrote:
>
>> Jody Harris wrote:
>> > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:34 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood <
>> > david-sarah at jacaranda.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Jody Harris wrote:
>> >>> 2010-02-06 19:09:37-0700 [SSHChannel session (0) on SSHService
>> >>> ssh-connection on SSHServerTransport,11,127.0.0.1] Unhandled Error
>> >> [...]
>> >>>           File
>> >>> "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/conch/ssh/filetransfer.py",
>> >> line
>> >>> 95, in _packAttributes
>> >>>             data += struct.pack('!Q', attrs['size'])
>> >>>         struct.error: cannot convert argument to long
>> >> OK, try applying
>> >> <
>> >>
>> http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/raw-attachment/ticket/645/size-assertions-darcspatch.txt
>> >> on top of the previous patch.
>> >> (It should fail an assertion and tell me what attrs['size']
>> >
>> > I'm not getting an attrs['size'] in the log... here is what I am
>> getting:
>> [...]
>> >           File
>> >
>> "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/allmydata_tahoe-1.6.0_r4229-py2.6.egg/allmydata/frontends/sftpd.py",
>> > line 269, in _render
>> >             assert isinstance(s.st_size, (int, long)), s.st_size
>> >         exceptions.AssertionError:
>>
>> That means that attrs['size'] is probably "" or None. I should have used
>>
>>  assert isinstance(s.st_size, (int, long)), repr(s.st_size)
>>
>> instead to distinguish them.
>>
>> Are there any mutable files under the alias directory, or only directories
>> and immutable files? Does the above error occur when the alias directory
>> is empty?
>>
>
> I created a fresh, new empty alias.
>
> If the directory is empty: No errors. Only SSHService reports.
>
> If I put a single immutable file in the directory ({{{tahoe cp file
> alias}}}), I get no errors, but I also get no response.
>
> ... {{{tahoe ls alias:}}} seems to be broken, now.
>
>  jody
>
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