Ubuntu – Gvfs-mount does not work with FTP anymore

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Since I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 gvfs-mount does not work with FTP anymore. Trying to connect to a FTP-server using Nautilus or

  gvfs-mount "ftp://user@server.de/"

I get the following error message:

  Error mounting location: Error resolving '': No address associated with hostname

Connecting via SSH or other protocols works well. The problem occurs only with my current user. That means it can't be an issue with the FTP-Server. So I tried to delete all gvfs config files with:

  sudo apt-get purge gvfs

and after that reinstalled it. But this did not change anything.
What else could I do? Please help.

Best Answer

I found the answer here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/1018806 The problem results from wrong configuration of system wide proxy. If you have the same problem you can try following commands, that will reset your proxy settings to default:

gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy autoconfig-url ''
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy ignore-hosts ['localhost', '127.0.0.0/8']
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy mode 'none'
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy use-same-proxy false
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.ftp host ''
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.ftp port 0
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.http authentication-password ''
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.http authentication-user ''
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.http enabled false
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.http host ''
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.http port 8080
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.http use-authentication false
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.https host ''
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.https port 0
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.socks host ''
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.socks port 0
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