[gst-devel] Problem using gnomevfs plugin and ssh

[Tiago Katcipis]

Can anyone at least help me to determine if it is a bug or something wrong i
am doing? I'm thinking on reporting it as a bug on gstreamer bugzilla.

best regards,
Katcipis

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Tiago Katcipis <katcipis at inf.ufsc.br>wrote:

> I'm developing an application that does heavy use on the gnomevfssrc plugin
> to load urls from different protocols, most of the urls are ssh. Everything
> was going fine since we started to notice an odd behaviour on our tests,
> when the application receives the request to open the same ssh url multiple
> times it gives a lot of warnings, and sometimes it even crash.
>
> Because of that odd behaviour i made a simple application reproducing this
> problem, basically you pass a url and how many pipes reading that url at the
> same time you want, it is just a gnomevfssrc ! fakesink pipe (on more
> complex pipelines the error is the same). With this code test if you open
> even a hundred times the same http address it works fine, but if you open 3
> or more times the same ssh url, it gets this error (it is the same error i
> get on the real application, sometimes the errors are bigger but it is the
> same warnings multiple times before the crash):
>
> *(gnomevfs_ssh:5316): gnome-vfs-modules-CRITICAL **: Message length too
> long: 1761607680
> (gnomevfs_ssh:5316): gnome-vfs-modules-WARNING **: ID mismatch (15 != 5)
> (gnomevfs_ssh:5316): gnome-vfs-modules-CRITICAL **: Message length too
> long: 1728053248
> (gnomevfs_ssh:5316): gnome-vfs-modules-CRITICAL **: Message length too
> long: 100663312
> (gnomevfs_ssh:5316): gnome-vfs-modules-CRITICAL **: Could not read 1 bytes
> (gnomevfs_ssh:5316): gnome-vfs-modules-CRITICAL **: Could not read 4 bytes
> (gnomevfs_ssh:5316): gnome-vfs-modules-CRITICAL **: ID mismatch (4286513152
> != 8)
> (gnomevfs_ssh:5316): gnome-vfs-modules-CRITICAL **: Expected
> SSH2_FXP_HANDLE(102) packet, got 0
> (gnomevfs_ssh:5316): gnome-vfs-modules-CRITICAL **: Could not read 4 bytes
> GLib-ERROR **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.22.3/glib/gmem.c:136: failed to
> allocate 18446744073701097472 bytes
> aborting...
> Aborted*
>
> I don't know if it is something that i am doing wrong, but i suppose i am
> allowed to open the same url multiple times to do different processing on
> that url, so it sens like a bug on gnomevfssrc, the fact that file and http
> protocols works fine is an indicative that the problem is related to
> gnomevfssrc and ssh (i didn't tested with others protocols like smb or ftp,
> but the test code can test any of these).
>
> Of course when the test is run with only one pipeline reading the ssh url
> it works just fine, no warnings or errors are given, 2 or more makes things
> go ugly.
>
> can someone help me to see what i am doing wrong or if it is really a bug?
>
> The tests have been made on Ubuntu 9.10 32 bits and 64 bits with gstreamer
> 0.10.25 (same error on both).
>
> the source code of the test can be found on:
> https://svn.inf.ufsc.br/katcipis/c/gstreamer/gnomevfs_ssh_bug/
>
> best regards,
> Katcipis
>
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