Unable to establish remote connection if a previous one was terminated

[mc-butler]

Important

This issue was migrated from Trac:

Origin	https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/2734
Reporter	wimpog

When I connect to a remote server via the Shell link (/#sh:), stay connected for a while, and the connection is closed/terminated by the remote host, I cannot connect to any other remote server without restarting MC.

mc -V

GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.0
Built with GLib 2.28.8
Using the ncurses library
With builtin Editor
With subshell support as default
With support for background operations
With mouse support on xterm
With support for X11 events
With internationalization support
With multiple codepages support
Virtual File Systems: cpiofs, tarfs, sfs, extfs, ftpfs, fish
Data types: char: 8; int: 32; long: 64; void *: 64; size_t: 64; off_t: 64;

[mc-butler]

Changed by slavazanko (@slavaz) on Feb 14, 2012 at 16:20 UTC (comment 1)

update to latest version, please (4.8.1) and try again. Is error occurs?

[mc-butler]

Changed by slavazanko (@slavaz) on Mar 23, 2012 at 9:55 UTC (comment 2)

• Owner set to slavazanko
• Status changed from new to accepted

[mc-butler]

Changed by andrew_b (@aborodin) on Jun 18, 2015 at 18:29 UTC (comment 3)

• Component changed from mc-core to mc-vfs
• Milestone set to Future Releases

[mc-butler]

Changed by andrew_b (@aborodin) on Jul 16, 2017 at 4:36 UTC (comment 4)

• Status changed from accepted to closed
• Milestone Future Releases deleted
• Resolution set to duplicate

Closed as duplicate of #2256.

[mc-butler]

Changed by zaytsev (@zyv) on Feb 21, 2025 at 7:54 UTC (comment 5)

• Description edited