401289 - Download is incomplete but DM says done almost immediately

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Steve Lee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007102604 Minefield/3.0a9pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007102604 Minefield/3.0a9pre

Saving to desktop. The download manager say done almost immediately but the file is only partially downloaded.
Trying again it works (so have a second file on the desktop)
Doesn't matter if DM open before or not.

I have this problem on 2 Gutsy's. One upgraded from Fiest, one clean install. 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select URL above and Save file
2.DB says done
3.Do it again and it downloads
Actual Results:  
Only downloads the second time

Expected Results:  
downloads first time

I also had the problem for ages on Fiesty, where almost any tarball fails to download completely so I had to use Minefield in Windows.
Don't know if second attempt worked then.

Comment 1

[Steve Lee]

I got into a state where it would never download.

I'm happy to work through with someone to resolve this (I'm a techy)

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Not having problems, myself, downloading using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007103104 Minefield/3.0a9pre in Ubuntu Fiesty.

If you examine downloads.sqlite for the relevant download, what is its state?

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/toolkit/components/downloads/public/nsIDownloadManager.idl#56 has the mappings

Comment 3

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

(Oh, and are you running any proxies, transparent to you or explicitly specified in Advanced | Network | Settings, in Firefox?

Comment 4

[Steve Lee]

No proxies, direct connection. I connect straight to a netgear ADSL router/modem

Looking at db (with the http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqlitebrowser/)

I just tried 4 times to download the new skype beta for linux, all attempts failed with no error

here's the CSV format as I can't cut'n'paste, sorry it wraps. 
All are state 1, but different sizes, the penultimate column vaires between 0 and 4.

"14","skype-debian_2.0.0.13-1_i386.deb","http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-debian_2.0.0.13-1_i386.deb","file:///tmp/skype-debian_2.0.0.13-1_i386.deb","","1194529156556255","1194529161180847","1","http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/download/skype/linux/beta/choose/","","1782614","1782614","application/octet-stream","","4","0"
"15","skype-debian_2.0.0.13-1_i386.deb","http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-debian_2.0.0.13-1_i386.deb","file:///tmp/skype-debian_2.0.0.13-1_i386.deb","","1194529173301405","1194529175766043","1","http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/download/skype/linux/beta/choose/","","1782614","1782614","application/octet-stream","","4","0"
"16","skype-debian_2.0.0.13-1_i386.deb","http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-debian_2.0.0.13-1_i386.deb","file:///home/steve/Desktop/skype-debian_2.0.0.13-1_i386.deb","","1194529187811815","1194529191178174","1","http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/download/skype/linux/beta/choose/","","3950632","3950632","application/octet-stream","","0","0"
"17","skype-debian_2.0.0.13-1_i386(2).deb","http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-debian_2.0.0.13-1_i386.deb","file:///home/steve/Desktop/skype-debian_2.0.0.13-1_i386(2).deb","","1194529234133482","1194529261234998","1","http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/download/skype/linux/beta/choose/","","14933294","14933294","application/octet-stream","","0","0"

Comment 5

[Steve Lee]

Attachment: my downloads.sqlite

This is the entire CVS output

Comment 6

[Steve Lee]

actually the last download of skype is OK.

I find that if it is going to work it is saving file to desktop on the second attempt (so the filename has has (2) in it). Usually even that fails.

Comment 7

[Steve Lee]

I've not seen this a while now so closing