#1059418 nemo stops attempting to mount SMB servers or shares if an incorrect password is "remembered"

Package:
nemo
Source:
nemo
Description:
File manager and graphical shell for Cinnamon
Submitter:
Eric Park
Date:
2023-12-25 03:51:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1059418#5
Date:
2023-12-25 03:47:17 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

nemo (or some underlying system that nemo uses) has a bug where SMB
share/server
mounting will lock up, if an incorrect password was entered previously and the
password was set to be remembered (for a session or forever).

It is possible that the password remember option is not necessary to lock up
nemo,
however I have not tested this.

During this "lock up" state, nemo will appear to be mounting the server/share,
with
the dialog "Opening <servername> (File Sharing)" and the message "You can stop
this
operation by clicking cancel". However, this dialog will never go away and the
server
or share will never mount.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Click on a server/share entry in the "Network" tab
2. Input incorrect credentials
3. Click on one of the remember credentials options (although this may not be
   necessary for bug repro)
4. Retry connecting to the server/share again

In this bugged state, the incorrect credentials cannot be removed from memory,
as it does not show up under seahorse. I am assuming that the previous
operation
with the incorrect credentials did not succeed, so it didn't save to the
keystore
yet, but nemo is still waiting on that previous operation to finish, creating
some
sort of deadlock.


Eric