sftp put -r not working, terminal prints "Entering myDirectory" and then nothing happens

Question

I am trying to upload a directory from my local machine to a Digital Ocean droplet, ubuntu 14.04, using the command "put -r myDirectory". Initially I had the "unable to canonicalize path" issue, but I created a remote 'myDirectory' as instructed and the error message disappeared.

However, "put -r myDirectory" still doesn't work - the console prints "Uploading myDirectory/ to /remote/path/myDirectory, Entering myDirectory/" and then nothing happens. I am new to sftp but I'm very puzzled as I can't find my problem on the internet.

Answer 1

Well - I'm currently running into the same problem. It seems that this OpenSSH bug report may have a lot to do with it:

http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-bugs/2016-January/015929.html

I'm running on Ubuntu 15.10, OpenSSH version 6.9p1. They seem to have fixed it in this commit from Feb 11, but I'm not sure yet how to get it running in my current environment.