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lxkraken

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[SOVED] Bizarre Output When Using ls -al

So I've been mounting a remote filesystem using SSHFS to a directory called "remote" in my home folder.

Today, I tried mounting that same folder and I got this error message:

fuse: bad mount point `/home/user/remote': Transport endpoint is not connected

Hmm .... let's do an 'ls -al'.....

 $ ls -al

-rw-------   1 user  user        8908 Dec  2 14:01 awesomefile.txt
d?????????   ? ?    ?            ?            ? remote
-rw-r--r--   1 user   user      817920 Jan 15 11:08 dwarfporn.avi

Odd. Trying to delete or chmod the 'remote' folder as root gives the following error:

# rm -r remote
rm: cannot remove ‘remote’: Is a directory

# chmod 777 remote
chmod: cannot access ‘remote’: Permission denied

What's going on?

Last edited by lxkraken (2015-01-19 21:59:27)

WorMzy

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Re: [SOVED] Bizarre Output When Using ls -al

The initial error is pretty self explanatory. The other end of your ssh mount isn't connected, i.e. you've lost connection to it (or it was never fully connected in the first place).

The question marks in ls' output signify that ls can't get information about that folder (in this case for the same reason -- it's not connected).

Tell fuse to disconnect/unmount the filesystem (see 'man fusermount'), then try connecting to the filesystem again.

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lxkraken

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Re: [SOVED] Bizarre Output When Using ls -al

The question marks in ls' output signify that ls can't get information about that folder (in this case for the same reason -- it's not connected).

Thanks!

Doing an 'fusermount -u ~/remote' brought everything back to normal. I remember doing an 'fusermount -uz ~/remote' the last time I dismounted the remote filesystem, which is likely the cause of the strangeness (lazy unmounting).

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOVED] Bizarre Output When Using ls -al

Not a Sysadmin issue, moving to NC.

Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.

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