197359 - FTP publish upload fails repeatedly on third or fourth try

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[Tom Gally]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

When I edit pages at my personal Website (hosted by Hostway), I can edit and
publish (upload) pages twice or three times without any problems, but on the
third or fourth try and every try thereafter the upload process stalls after I
click "Publish"; that is, the "Publishing Status" section in the "Publishing:
(page title)" window continues to show "Publishing..." indefinitely. This
happened with an earlier version of Mozilla (1.2.1?), and I was able to fix it
by reverting to an earlier settings folder, making me think that the problem was
a corrupted settings file. This time, I have tried two different backed-up
settings from before updating to 1.3, but the problem persists.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a Web page in the browser at a site to which I have ftp access.
2. Edit the page.
3. Click "Publish."

Actual Results:  
The first two or three times, the page uploaded properly within a few seconds.
The third or fourth time thereafter, the "Publishing: ..." window continued to
display "Publishing..." indefinitely. Quitting and restarting Mozilla allowed me
to upload pages two or three times again, then the problem occurred again.

Expected Results:  
It should have allowed me to upload as many files as I want without restarting
Mozilla.

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

Tom, can you reproduce this problem using another Mozilla user profile?

Comment 2

[Tom Gally]

Additional tests by me (the original reporter) using a different user profile
and uploading to the same site yielded the same result: each time, FTP publish
failed after the third try. Using my original profile but uploading to a
different site, I was able to publish for more than three times, but after about
a dozen times (I wasn't counting) the publish function began to fail and a "530
Sorry, the maximum number clients (12) from your host are already connected"
message appeared. Could this mean that Mozilla is connecting as a different
client each time I publish? Perhaps the first site had a maximum of three
clients and the second site twelve.

Comment 3

[Chris Petersen]

I'm seeing a problem where I can't publish the same document after the first ftp
publishing has occured. The error I get the following: The process cannot access
the file because it is being used by another. Here is the server I'm publishing to:

220 geckoqa Microsoft FTP Service (Version 5.0).
Remote system type is Windows_NT

Comment 4

[Chris Petersen]

The problem I described is happening on both Mach-o OS X (2003-03-13-03) and
Win32 (2003-03-13-04) trunk builds.

Comment 5

[Kathleen :Brade]

-->darin

Comment 6

[Samir Gehani]

Editor triage team: nsbeta1+/adt2

Comment 7

[Frederic Stark]

First, it looks like a duplicate of bug #138658

Second, I see the same thing here (Mozilla 1.3 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows
NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

Publishing to my own web server fails at the 15th attempt in a short time.
Looking at netstat output from a windows command line, it looks like composer is
not closing the ftp connection. At 15 active connections, my server refuses
more. It is 100% reproductible here. FTP server is proftpd on freebsd. Log is:

Mar 26 18:31:25 bull proftpd[39018]: localhost (192.168.0.130[192.168.0.130]) -
USER fred: Login successful.
Mar 26 18:31:28 bull proftpd[39021]: localhost (192.168.0.130[192.168.0.130]) -
USER fred: Login successful.
Mar 26 18:31:31 bull proftpd[275]: localhost - MaxInstances (15) reached, new co
nnection denied.

My workaround is to exit mozilla, then wait for connections to timeout and
reconnect.

Comment 8

[Chris Petersen]

Using the 2003-05-07-03 Macho build, I haven't been able to reproduce the
problem I mentioned in comment #3. I have been publishing (using ftp) the same
document each time I modify it. I published this document 5 -10  times and never
got a error. Perhaps this has been resolved ? Reporter, I would try with the
latest Macho trunk build to see if you can still reproduce.

Comment 9

[Tom Gally]

I was able to reproduce this bug exactly with Mozilla 1.3.1 for Mac OS X, but
the bug did not appear with 1.4b for Mac OS X (Build ID: 2003050714) when tested
under the same conditions. So it looks like it has been fixed in 1.4b. Many
thanks to whoever made the fix.