Comment 0 for bug 137514

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.

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.