Bug 91365 – KDE 3.4 SFTP "out of memory" error.

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Matthew Bevan 2005-05-03 15:48:05 UTC]

After a new installation of gentoo and emerge of KDE 3.4 on my amd64, KDE is unwilling to sftp using the sftp:// kioslave, giving the following error:

An error occurred while loading sftp://user at host: 
Error. Out of memory. 
Could not allocate memory for SFTP packet.

This problem has been solved in KDE CVS, as well as the patch for kdebase-kioslaves is directly applyable at emerge-time.  Please see the URL for this bug for the patch (KDE bugzilla).

I formally request the kdebase-kioslaves split ebuild and any other applicable ebuilds be updated to include this patch if running on amd64.

As a temporary workaround, you can use fish:// with the same paramaters as the sftp:// request.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Emerge kdebase-kioslaves and other KDE packages nessicary to get Konqueror running on an amd64 machine.
2. sftp:// to a host using Konqueror.
3. Witness the error.
Actual Results:  
The aformentioned out of memory error. 

Expected Results:  
Successful connection and use of sftp:// as a virtual filesystem in KDE 
applications. 

Also discussed on the Gentoo forums: 
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2326380.html#2326380

[Comment 1 Tom Simnett 2005-05-11 07:16:37 UTC]

Can the patch provided (which works) on http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102103  please be added to the kdebase-kioslaves ebuild?

Cheers

[Comment 2 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) 2005-05-11 11:48:47 UTC]

Is there a patch for this single issue? The one provided covers multiple things and is a bit heavy. Consider also that kde 3.4.1 should be released really soon...

[Comment 3 Dan Armak (RETIRED) 2005-05-25 11:24:05 UTC]

Will be closed with 3.4.1's release next week. 

[Comment 4 Dominik Stadler (RETIRED) 2005-06-05 04:30:01 UTC]

3.4.1 is out, closing this Bug, please update in order to fix this Bug.