Bug 51870 – Epiphany fails to download files

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Marcos González 2004-05-23 15:07:53 UTC]

From time to time, when clicking in a link to download a file in a web page, Epiphany fails to download it. In the downloads window appears a "failed" message and the file isn't downloaded. This behaviour appears randomly, but when a link doesn't work, it carries on failing. Reopening Epiphany doesn't solve the problem.

This happens with Epiphany 1.2.5 (haven't tested 1.2.3). BTW, 1.2.2 doesn't have this problem.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse a webpage and download some file clicking on its link.
2. Downloads window opens.
3. Epiphany tries to download the file for a second.

Actual Results:  
A "failed" message appears inside the progress bar.

Expected Results:  
The file should be retrieved and the progress bar should show the percent
downloaded.

Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.5-gentoo-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -msse -m3dnow -mmmx
-mfpmath=sse,387 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -msse -m3dnow -mmmx
-mfpmath=sse,387 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache prelink sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://212.219.247.15/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/
http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/
ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ http://gentoo.inode.at/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow S3TC X aalib accessibility acpi alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bonobo
cddb cdr crypt cups dga directfb encode esd evo fam fbcon flash fmod foomaticdb
freetype gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick
imlib jabber java javascript joystick jpeg lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod
mldonkeypango mmx mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozp3p mozsvg mpeg msn
music ncurses net nls nocardbus offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl
plotutils png pnp python quicktime readline rogue ruby sdl slang spell sse ssl
stencil-buffer svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype usb wmf x86
xatrix xface xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2004-05-25 02:09:02 UTC]

probably upstream problem. Might be vfs rather than epiphany.

[Comment 2 foser (RETIRED) 2004-08-19 12:32:39 UTC]

can you give specifics on what exact files where are not downloaded ? examples.

[Comment 3 Marcos González 2004-08-19 15:00:13 UTC]

The problems happended with PDFs hosted in my university, and videos posted in webpages. There were lot of cases, and variated.

But I reinstalled Gentoo some weeks ago, and installed 1.2.6 (marked ~x86 in those days) and the problem solved. Don't know if it solved because my reinstall or the version bump, but now files seem to download nicely. Right now I'm upgrading to 1.2.7-r1. If I get the problem again, I will post it here.

[Comment 4 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) 2004-11-04 03:17:48 UTC]

no traffic, and the reporter has reinstalled.

[Comment 5 Marcos González 2004-11-04 04:25:21 UTC]

Yes, I've epiphany 1.4.0 installed and the problem didn't appear for long. IMHO The bug can be closed.