Bug 502454

Summary: sshfs password prompt in terminal window freezes Plasma
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Germano Massullo <germano.massullo>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: kde, nate, niccolo.venerandi, postix
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.3.4   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Germano Massullo 2025-04-05 14:30:15 UTC
Since a few months (I don't remember if this started happening with Plasma 6.3.0 or a little before), everytime I run in bash
$ sshfs ~/foo user@ipaddress:/bar
as soon I get prompted for the password, Plasma panel freezes and to switch application I am forced to use ALT+TAB.
As soon I enter the password and press Enter, the Plasma panel gets back to normal behaviour

Plasma 6.3.4
Kf 6.12.0
Qt 6.8.2
Fedora 41 KDE
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-04-07 19:07:50 UTC
The dialog that appears asking for your password is interactive, right? Sounds like it's just modal.
Comment 2 Germano Massullo 2025-04-09 10:00:44 UTC
it is not a popup dialog box. It's just a password prompt within bash
Comment 3 Germano Massullo 2025-04-09 10:01:34 UTC
(In reply to Germano Massullo from comment #2)
> it is not a popup dialog box. It's just a password prompt within bash

and with bash I mean Konsole
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2025-04-09 15:33:40 UTC
Well that's very odd, then.

If your home folder mounted from a network location or something?

Can you attach a screen recording of it happening?
Comment 5 Germano Massullo 2025-04-09 16:03:03 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #4)
> If your home folder mounted from a network location or something?

It's not the home folder, it's a home subfolder. I made a mistake in the first message, here is the correct command I use
sshfs -o cache=yes -o kernel_cache user@192.168.1.100:/zpool_1/archive /home/user/remote

> Can you attach a screen recording of it happening?

It would take a lot to censor sensitive data, but if we really need a video I will provide it
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2025-04-09 20:17:18 UTC
It's okay, you don't have to.

Still, you're using the system in a way that's known to cause issues like these; manually mounting network locations that UI software will use is playing with fire.
Comment 7 Germano Massullo 2025-04-09 20:56:09 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #6)
> Still, you're using the system in a way that's known to cause issues like
> these; manually mounting network locations that UI software will use is
> playing with fire.

what protocol would you use?
Comment 8 Nate Graham 2025-04-10 14:40:28 UTC
I use Samba for file sharing between machines, and not with manual mounts, either. I just set up the remote location as a Places panel item using its smb:// URL and everything just works through the magic of KIO and KIO-FUSE.
Comment 9 Germano Massullo 2025-04-11 23:06:33 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #8)
> I use Samba for file sharing between machines, and not with manual mounts,
> either. I just set up the remote location as a Places panel item using its
> smb:// URL and everything just works through the magic of KIO and KIO-FUSE.

I need SSH authentication method that is unavailable for both SMB and NFS
Comment 10 postix 2025-05-18 12:52:29 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 501052 ***