Loss of lan connection causes applications using gvfsd-sftp to hang until demon is killed
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gvfs (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Bionic |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
* Impact
The gvfsd-sftp service sometime hangs
* Test case
- connect to a ssh server from nautilus
- suspend the computer for longer than the ssh timeout (1 hour for example)
- resume and try to use the connection
* Regression potential
Check that nautilus access to remote servers still work correctly
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This affects an installation of Ubuntu 14.04 on a Lenovo laptop.
When applications like nautilus or Bluefish are connected to a remote fileshare using sftp (ssh) via a lan connection, if the connection is lost and re-established the old process seems to hang blocking attempts to save data or use Nautilus in any way.
This typically occurs when the connection is either lost accidentally or when the laptop is suspended and then unsuspended causing a loss of wireless connection.
The workaround is to kill the gvsftp process manually and then recreate the remote connection using Nautilus.
This bug leads to data loss if, for instance, the laptop is closed (starting suspend mode) while in the middle of a task that must be saved.
ERROR: apport (pid 5064) Thu Oct 6 17:38:29 2016: called for pid 3309, signal 6, core limit 0
ERROR: apport (pid 5064) Thu Oct 6 17:38:29 2016: executable: /usr/lib/
ERROR: apport (pid 5064) Thu Oct 6 17:38:29 2016: debug: session gdbus call: (true,)
ERROR: apport (pid 5064) Thu Oct 6 17:38:30 2016: wrote report /var/crash/
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release: 14.04
gvfs:
Installed: 1.20.3-0ubuntu1.2
Candidate: 1.20.3-0ubuntu1.2
Version table:
*** 1.20.3-0ubuntu1.2 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
1.
500 http://
description: | updated |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.