I see this in journalctl at approx. the time of this "giving up after 5 attempts", I also use sftp: (where XXX is my user name)
Okt 25 17:51:09 XXX kernel: gvfsd-sftp[10782]: segfault at 55b300000002 ip 00007f0a424e63ae sp 00007fffe1c32c00 error 4 in libc-2.30.so[7f0a4246e000+178000] Okt 25 17:51:09 XXX kernel: Code: 84 5c ff ff ff 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 8d 0c 58 0f b7 11 66 85 d2 0f 84 45 ff ff ff 48 8d 04 d8 83 ea 01 4c 8b 80 80 00 00 00 <49> 8b 30 48 89 b0 80 00 00 00 66 8
I see this in journalctl at approx. the time of this "giving up after 5 attempts", I also use sftp: (where XXX is my user name)
Okt 25 17:51:09 XXX kernel: gvfsd-sftp[10782]: segfault at 55b300000002 ip 00007f0a424e63ae sp 00007fffe1c32c00 error 4 in libc-2. 30.so[7f0a4246e 000+178000]
Okt 25 17:51:09 XXX kernel: Code: 84 5c ff ff ff 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 8d 0c 58 0f b7 11 66 85 d2 0f 84 45 ff ff ff 48 8d 04 d8 83 ea 01 4c 8b 80 80 00 00 00 <49> 8b 30 48 89 b0 80 00 00 00 66 8