k9s freezes when left open for a short period of time

[phr3nzii]

Describe the bug
I am using k9s with EKS. Since upgrading to 0.20.x I am finding that if I have been running k9s for a little while it completely locks up and I cannot use :q or ctrl+c to exit the application. I believe this may be related to refreshing cached credentials, the logs show the following...

5:18PM INF 🐶 K9s starting up...
5:18PM INF ✅ Kubernetes connectivity
5:18PM INF No context specific skin file found -- /Users/christaylor/.k9s/eks_cronofy-staging_skin.yml
5:18PM INF No skin file found -- /Users/christaylor/.k9s/skin.yml. Loading stock skins.
5:18PM ERR Custom view load failed /Users/christaylor/.k9s/views.yml error="open /Users/christaylor/.k9s/views.yml: no such file or directory"
5:18PM ERR CustomView watcher failed error="lstat /Users/christaylor/.k9s/views.yml: no such file or directory"
5:25PM ERR K9s can't connect to cluster error="the server has asked for the client to provide credentials"
5:25PM WRN Conn check failed (1/15)
5:25PM ERR reconcile failed "v1/pods"::"" error="ACCESS -- No API server connection"

In this case, I had started k9s and left it on the pods screen, after a while I pressed 0 to switch to viewing all pods and that's when I noticed the application had locked up.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Start k9s
2. Leave it running for some time, in my case it happened after 7 minutes.
3. The application locks up.

Expected behavior
The application to not lock up, successfully refresh credentials and carry on

Versions:

• OS: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
• K9s: 0.20.3
• K8s : 1.14.9

[sgandon]

I am also experiencing a lot of freezes and Dial K8s failed (1) issues on our eks clusters.

[soupyt]

Me too, also on EKS, (K9S 0.20.3) it seems that if you spot the Dial K8S message quick enough you can quit out, but if left, it will freeze

[derailed]

@phr3nzii Thank you for the report! Great catch!! Should happier on v0.20.4!

[phr3nzii]

Thanks, @derailed. Amazingly fast resolution! It's much better today, I haven't had a single crash! 😄