Re: How to diagnose and report a bug

[Curt <curty@free.fr>]

On 2018-06-15, Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
> On 2018-06-15, rv riveravaldez <riveravaldezmail@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, I've found this bug consistently on debian testing (updated):
>>
>> Steps to reproduce:
>> In pcmanfm's address bar, type:
>> ssh://user@ip
>> Write password, Enter.
>> Navigate to the remote machine user's folder.
>> Open, edit and save a plain text file with leafpad.
>> Result:
>> The file gets blanked (no content at all).
>
> Obviously one test to attempt to corner the real culprit in this affair
> would be to try another editor. How about gedit, for example? Or have
> you done that already? 
>
> Reading the little thread below gets me to thinking leafpad is the guilty party
> rather than pcmanfm:
>
> https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/27576/leafpad-edit-over-sftp-connection

Seems there are already bug reports out in the wild:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/44681
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/leafpad/+bug/708829
https://github.com/stevenhoneyman/l3afpad/issues/13

Anyhoo.
>> Mounting the remote machine with sshfs, and doing the next steps
>> identically, works fine.
>>
>> Packages:
>> leafpad     0.8.18.1-5
>> pcmanfm  1.3.0-1
>> ssh            1:7.7p1-2
>>
>> Any recomendations on how to diagnose and report this bug?
>>
>> Thanks a lot.
>>
>>
>
>


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