Public bug reported:
When running sshfs with the -o reconnect flag, under gnome, the darn
gnome password prompt captures virtually all input.
It becomes impossible to do anything other than type a password into the
box. Clicking cancel on the box just makes it go away for an instant,
then it comes right back. The box captures all mouse clicks so you
cannot do anything else, no matter how hard you try. Keyboard input is
captured. Basically, if you do not know the appropriate password, your
only recourse is control-alt-F2 to get away from gnome, then restart gdm
or kill -9 sshfs.
This is wrong. Gnome takes an application that is well behaved when
run on the command line (since you can easily ignore the password
requests) and essentially locks my screen.
There has to be some way to ignore a request for a password (e.g. one
that originates in openssh). Clicking <cancel> doesn't do the trick in
this case.
And, it's not an openssh or sshfs bug. The desired behaviour for sshfs
-o reconnect, is indeed to reconnect as soon as possible, and it has no
way of knowing that its behaviour will capture all keyboard and mouse
input. So, it's presumably a gnome bug, in that the password request
window is too powerful.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gnome (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.43-generic-pae 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 17 22:37:00 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: meta-gnome2
** Affects: meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid
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Gnome's password prompt captures almost all input
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/641648
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