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KiriSakow
Asked: 2018-11-07 23:00:55 +0800 CST

fuse: bad mount point `/mnt': Transport endpoint is not connected

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I needed to locally edit remote files on my server, so I tried to mount the whole remote file system (/) on my local system with SSHFS like so:

 $ sshfs [email protected]:// /mnt -p 22

Then it stuck (cursor blinking, no output), so obviously I cancelled it with Ctrl+C.

After that, the mount point folder /mnt became sort of unusable, unreachable (you name it) and kept returning me this error message on any attempt to access it:

fuse: bad mount point `/mnt': Transport endpoint is not connected

And it took this weird look in its parent folder:

$ ls -l /
...
d?????????   ? ?    ?        ?            ? mnt`
...

How can I resolve the error and get back to normal?

What should I do to be able to use SSHFS?

sshfs fuse

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    1. Kill all sshfs processes

    • Either with killall command:

      killall sshfs

      or selectively:

    • Find all running sshfs processes:

      ps -ef | grep sshfs | grep -v grep

      Say you've got two of them running:

      $ ps -ef | grep sshfs | grep -v grep
root     10906  5170  0 07:14 pts/0    00:00:00 sudo sshfs
root     10907 10906  0 07:14 pts/0    00:00:00 sshfs

    • Now kill them both or selectively by identifying them by their PID:

      sudo kill -9 10906 10907


    2. Unmount your mount point

    sudo umount -l /mnt


    3. Edit /etc/fuse.conf so you never meet the fuse: bad mount point `/mnt': Transport endpoint is not connected error again:

    • Open it as root with your favorite editor, for example

      sudo atom /etc/fuse.conf
    • Uncomment the user_allow_other line.
    • Save and close.


    4. Use SSHFS with the following options:

    sudo sshfs \
-d \
-o allow_other \
-o reconnect \
-o ServerAliveInterval=15 \
[email protected]:/ /mnt \
-p 12345 \
-C
    • -d turns debug mode on (gives more output)
    • -o stands for "option"
    • -p allows you to specify port number
    • -C turns on compression

    Sources:

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