[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#844331: mc: file transfer hangs upon "Skip all" on io errors

[Adam Borowski]

Package: mc
Version: 3:4.8.18-1
Severity: normal

Hi!
When a "Copy" or "Move" operation hits an io error, it offers to "Skip" the
current file, "Skip all", "Retry", "Abort".  If you select "Skip all", it
will ask you once whether to delete the incomplete file, then hang.  The UI
is still responsive, showing an ever-increasing ETA, yet no progress is
being done.

On the other hand, mere "Skip" does work -- it asks two questions per file
(Skip then delete incomplete), which is greatly tedious but allows progress.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.8.7+ (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages mc depends on:
ii  e2fslibs      1.43.3-1
ii  libc6         2.24-5
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.50.2-1
ii  libgpm2       1.20.4-6.2
ii  libslang2     2.3.1-5
ii  libssh2-1     1.7.0-1
ii  mc-data       3:4.8.18-1

Versions of packages mc recommends:
ii  mime-support  3.60
ii  perl          5.24.1~rc3-3
ii  unzip         6.0-20

Versions of packages mc suggests:
pn  arj                              <none>
ii  atril [pdf-viewer]               1.16.0-1
ii  bzip2                            1.0.6-8
pn  catdvi | texlive-binaries        <none>
pn  dbview                           <none>
pn  djvulibre-bin                    <none>
ii  file                             1:5.29-1
ii  genisoimage                      9:1.1.11-3
pn  gv                               <none>
ii  imagemagick                      8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2
ii  imagemagick-6.q16 [imagemagick]  8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2
pn  libaspell-dev                    <none>
pn  links | w3m | lynx               <none>
pn  odt2txt                          <none>
pn  poppler-utils                    <none>
ii  python                           2.7.11-2
pn  python-boto                      <none>
pn  python-tz                        <none>
pn  zip                              <none>

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