Opening of magnet links broken

Bug #1453174 reported by Felix Eckhofer
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This bug affects 11 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gvfs
Fix Released
Medium
gvfs (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Unassigned
Vivid
Fix Released
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

* Impact
some urls are not correctly handled

* Test case
$ xdg-open "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:9BE2..."

that should open a working dialog and not an error one

* Regression potential
check that the desktop handling of urls is correct (using xdg-open or click on e.g in website handlers in about dialogs)

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When clicking on a magnet link, transmission-remote-gtk always displays the error "invalid or corrupt torrent file". This seems to be caused by xdg-open slightly modifying the link:

$ xdg-open "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:9BE2..."

results in

$ transmission-remote-gtk "magnet:///?xt=urn:btih:9BE2..."

which causes the problem mentioned.

I'm using transmission-remote-gtk 1.1.1-1 from vivid.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in transmission-remote-gtk (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Bert Vermeulen (biot) wrote :

In the Gnome and Unity desktop environments, xdg-open calls gvfs-open with the URL. However this is broken in the current version (1.24.1): see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738690

The patch has been in master since May 2015, but it looks like Ubuntu's gvfs package is lagging behind. Even in Ubuntu 15.10 gvfs has not been upgraded. Looks like it's in 1.24.2, or the patch can be backported into Ubuntu.

Bert Vermeulen (biot)
affects: transmission-remote-gtk (Ubuntu) → gvfs (Ubuntu)
no longer affects: gvfs
Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the bugfix version include the needed change has been uploaded to wily and vivid (waiting for review)

description: updated
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gvfs - 1.24.2-0ubuntu1

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gvfs (1.24.2-0ubuntu1) wily; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version
    - udisks2: Fix a crash when unmounting (lp: #1500516)
    - udisks2: Handle libsecret errors properly to avoid a crash
      (lp: #1132250)
    - mtp: Copy mtime when pulling (lp: #1175947)
    - gvfs-open: Do not alter uris before use (lp: #1453174)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:48:31 +0200

Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Chris J Arges (arges) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Felix, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gvfs into vivid-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/1.24.2-0ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu Vivid):
status: New → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed
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Bert Vermeulen (biot) wrote :

Tested with 1.24.2-0ubuntu0.1 and magnet links now work fine, thanks.

tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
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Adrien Anceau (adrien-anceau) wrote :

gvfs 1.24.2-0ubuntu0.1 fixes the issue for me too.

Mathew Hodson (mhodson)
Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu Vivid):
importance: Undecided → High
tags: added: vivid
Bert Vermeulen (biot)
Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu Vivid):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Chris J Arges (arges) wrote : Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for gvfs has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

Changed in gvfs:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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