Why am I unable to unmount a sshfs mounted file system on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6?

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Issue

  • Why am I unable to unmount a sshfs mounted file system on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6?

  • Found following error messages while performing umount operation using  fusermount :

'fusermount -u /mnt/point' results in the error "fusermount: failed to unmount
/mnt/point: Bad address:

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

  • fuse-2.8.3-3.el6_1.x86_64

  • fuse-sshfs-2.3-1.el6.x86_64

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