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I have upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 from 15.10 (x64 version) and now I am unable to run FileZilla. There is some hard drive activity and then nothing.

When I open a terminal and type "Filezilla" I get the following error:

Reading locale option from /home/james/.filezilla/filezilla.xml
(filezilla:5532): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'height >= -1' failed
(filezilla:5532): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'width >= -1' failed
(filezilla:5532): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'height >= -1' failed
(filezilla:5532): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'width >= -1' failed
(filezilla:5532): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'width >= -1' failed
(filezilla:5532): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'height >= -1' failed
(filezilla:5532): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'width >= -1' failed
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I have checked my system log and it has this line:

May  2 21:56:55 JamesPC kernel: [ 3133.290205] filezilla[5532]: segfault at 140 ip 00007f8a3152dbc6 sp 00007ffda52e17e0 error 4 in libwx_gtk2u_core-3.0.so.0.2.0[7f8a3102d000+5f9000]
Videonauth
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Roben
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4 Answers4

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Problem with version 3.15 but solved in 3.20.

  1. Backup your config files, they can be located in ~/.config/filezilla or ~/.filezilla

  2. Download the latest FileZilla version from here

  3. Run:

    tar -xvf FileZilla_3.20.1_x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.bz2
cp -rp Filezilla3/bin/* /usr/bin/

Then, the output of filezilla --version should be:

    FileZilla 3.20.1 official build, compiled on 2016-08-03

  1. If you want you can create a launcher do this:

    wget http://www.freeiconspng.com/uploads/filezilla-icon-6.png
mkdir -p ~/Filezilla
mv filezilla-icon-6.png ~/Filezilla/filezilla.png
echo '[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Filezilla 3.20.1
Comment=Filezilla easy FTP transfer
Exec=/usr/bin/filezilla
Icon=~/Filezilla/filezilla.png
Categories=Application;Development;FTP;network
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=0
' > ~/.local/share/applications/filezilla.desktop

  2. Copy your config to the new config folder ~/.config/filezilla

Jesus Iniesta
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3

As per the comment from Nick Weinberg I removed the .filezilla directory within the home directory and it now works ("sudo rm -rf .filezilla")

Roben
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2

Removing the .filezilla directory works temporarily. The problem comes back after a few uses. Removing the directory is necessary each time it reoccurs.

FYI, the second time I had this issue there was no .filezilla directory. I had to remove .config/filezilla instead

guest
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I tried first solution by @Roben and it worked temporarily

Then i tried second solutions by removing entire directory from

home/.config/filezilla

which also works. But the problem was old saved details about sites were lost. Not good !!

So i then tried removing just one file from home/.config/filezilla/filezilla.xml

So removing just

filezilla.xml

worked without removing the old details. Since sitemanager.xml details are not altered here.

Works for me without damaging anything.

Pavan Mehta
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