gvfsd-sftp hangs on lost connection

[Vitaly Korolev]

I connect to my SFTP shares on Nautilus (Files) and it works fine. However, if the wifi connection drops or if I put computer on stadby and resume later, Files app hangs. It seems to be waiting for gvfsd process, but it in turn is waiting for the connection. It never restores the connection and just hangs indefinitely. Well, I never waited more than an hour.

The work-around is to kill gvfsd-sftp process and start new SFTP connectino from Files.

I had this issue in Ubuntu 14.04 and it's still here in 14.10.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: gvfs 1.20.2-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-25.33-generic 3.16.7
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Nov 25 10:10:20 2014
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-06 (50 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
SourcePackage: gvfs
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-24 (31 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Benjamin Williams (benjaminhwilliams)]

Possible duplicate of #1199787