sshfs locks up randomly
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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sshfs-fuse (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: sshfs
Hello! I'm running Gutsy on a laptop, and I use sshfs to mount directories from various computers around the house. (AFAIK, it's the "safest" solution, but I'm open to suggestions.)
It usually runs pretty well, although a bit slow (though I think it's because of the wireless more than the overhead).
However, it randomly locks up. This means that any application that tries to access a mount point (say, nautilus or ls) just freezes. I can start a terminal and kill the sshfs process, unmount the "share", and the applications (usually) come back. Either that or I kill them and restart them from the terminal. I can remount immediately, and it works for a while until it happens again.
I can't see any constant pattern with the freezes. I seems to happen more often when there's a big load on the share (eg, copy files and play media at the same time), but not always. Sometimes it seems to happen repeatedly when I try to access a certain directory on a share, but after a while it works. It doesn't seem to be linked to a certain application, either. Sometimes it happens a dozen times a day, sometimes I go for days without encountering this.
I've checked for anything that seemed obvious: the network isn't to blame (everything else keeps working), it happens both on wireless and Ethernet, and I'm connecting to a Linux (Ubuntu Feisty) and a MacOS X machine and it happens the same way.
I don't know what to search for next.
description: | updated |
Changed in sshfs-fuse: | |
status: | Incomplete → Fix Released |
I can confirm here.
I use sshfs to mount my remote folder and if I listen to a small movie file, the movie lock sometime. The network continue to work (firefox, pidgin, etc) and I can do a ssh to my server but the sshfs mount is lock. After a short while, the lock dissapear and the movie restart to play...