On Mon, 31 Dec 2018, David C. Rankin wrote:

>On 12/31/2018 09:12 AM, Marvin Jones via trinity-users wrote:
>> What's especially strange is that fish to localhost WORKS (which IS
>> mapped to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts), but fish to 127.0.0.1 FAILS!
>>
>> So, the test(s) shows that problem occurs within my local workstation,
>> and should rule out any issue with the remote hosts.
>>
>> I have to believe the problem is in konqueror or some sub-component it
>> uses for this feature/function.
>
>Back in the 2012 days there was a bug with sftp:// that Tim patched, but in
>that case fish continued to work. If both sftp and fish fail in konqueror, but
>work in konsole from the command line, then that would point to a
>tdelibe/kio_slaves (or maybe tdebase) I haven't looked in ages. There is
>global component that coordinate the kioslaves themselves as well as source
>file for each individual slave (e.g. sftp, fish, etc..)

Ahhh...  I thought fish and sftp were realized "internally".

 |jonesy@nix5:~$ locate sftp | egrep '(bin|lib)'
 |/opt/trinity/lib/trinity/tdeio_sftp.la
 |/opt/trinity/lib/trinity/tdeio_sftp.so
 |/usr/bin/sftp
 |/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-sftp
 |/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/sftp.so

 |jonesy@nix5:~$ locate fish | egrep '(bin|lib)'
 |/opt/trinity/lib/trinity/tdeio_fish.la
 |/opt/trinity/lib/trinity/tdeio_fish.so
 |/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/fish.so

(The output from `locate fish | egrep '(bin|lib)'` needed editing
 to eliminate non-applicable system/application components.)

>The fact that it works on the command line would tend to rule out a
>name-resolution issue.

That, and the fact that it fails using ip destination addressing.

And, why would it work -- out of all the possible sftp & fish
combinations I tried -- ONLY with  fish://jonesy@localhost/

I believe it was working up to the most recent system update I did.
That update brought in a bunch of system (Ubuntu) and Trinity changes.

I still believe the problem lies with konqueror -- or with a new
incompatibility between konqueror (Trinity) and Ubuntu.

I can readily do almost everything I need with command line ssh,
sftp, and sshfs.  But, there are some maintenance activities that
would be SO MUCH easier and straightforward with konqueror.

Jonesy