500 OOPS: child died

The ftp connection is dropped during attempt to upload a file. The file is being transfered ok but the connection is dropped after the transfer due to.. [07:44:12] 500 OOPS: child died

How to fix this?

The ISP said all should be ok and aked me to check with this site instead. Below is the transfer log. Thanks.


[07:43:40]     SmartFTP v1.5.990.4



[07:43:40]     Resolving host name "ftp.polarhome.com"



[07:43:40]     Connecting to 83.227.153.76 Port: 21



[07:43:40]     Connected to ftp.polarhome.com.



[07:43:44] 220 Welcome to redhat.polarhome.com FTP service.



[07:43:44]     USER xxxx



[07:43:44] 331 Please specify the password.



[07:43:44]     PASS (hidden)



[07:43:46] 230 Login successful.



[07:43:46]     SYST



[07:43:46] 215 UNIX Type: L8



[07:43:46]     TYPE I



[07:43:47] 200 Switching to Binary mode.



[07:43:47]     REST 0



[07:43:47] 350 Restart position accepted (0).



[07:43:47]     PWD



[07:43:47] 257 "/home/x/xxxxx"



[07:43:47]     PASV



[07:43:48] 227 Entering Passive Mode (83,227,153,76,234,230)



[07:43:48]     Opening data connection to 83.227.153.76 Port: 60134



[07:43:48]     LIST -aL



[07:43:48]     2207 bytes transferred. (6.28 KB/s) (343 ms)



[07:43:49] 150 Here comes the directory listing.



[07:43:49] 226 Directory send OK.



[07:43:53]     CWD /home/x/xxxxx/public_html



[07:43:53] 250 Directory successfully changed.



[07:43:53]     PWD



[07:43:53] 257 "/home/x/xxxxx/public_html"



[07:43:53]     PASV



[07:43:54] 227 Entering Passive Mode (83,227,153,76,102,35)



[07:43:54]     Opening data connection to 83.227.153.76 Port: 26147



[07:43:54]     LIST -aL



[07:43:54] 150 Here comes the directory listing.



[07:43:54] 226 Directory send OK.



[07:43:54]     455 bytes transferred. (1.35 KB/s) (328 ms)



[07:44:07]     Remote file exist check: 'bl_bar2.gif'.



[07:44:07]     SIZE bl_bar2.gif



[07:44:07] 550 Could not get file size.



[07:44:07]     PASV



[07:44:07] 227 Entering Passive Mode (83,227,153,76,149,47)



[07:44:07]     Opening data connection to 83.227.153.76 Port: 38191



[07:44:07]     STOR bl_bar2.gif



[07:44:08] 150 Ok to send data.



[07:44:08]     47 bytes transferred. (136 bytes/s) (344 ms)



[07:44:08] 226 File receive OK.



[07:44:08]     SIZE bl_bar2.gif



[07:44:12] 500 OOPS: child died



[07:44:12]     An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.



[07:44:12]     Client closed the connection.



[07:44:12]     Transfer successful.

Hello ..

The bug is with the FTP software running on the server.

Regards,
-Mat

Ask the server administrator to upgrade to the most recent version of vsftpd (Google for "vsftpd child died" for possible causes of this error).