Description of problem: Frequently when browsing an FTP server with nautilus, an attempt to open a folder causes the error "Folder contents could not be displayed" after a very short delay. Usually the folder contents can be accessed after a number of attempts. It would appear that Nautilus is "giving up too easily" with too short a timeout, rather than waiting for the contents to appear. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nautilus-2.8.1-4 How reproducible: Occurs frequently, but not predictably. Tested with download.fedora.redhat.com.
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test release, reopen and change the version to match. Thank you!
The ftp method in gnome-vfs has gotten some work since 2.8. However, if you see this still, please open a bug against gnome-vfs in bugzilla.gnome.org with the details. That way all the upstream developers can see it.