gvfsd-trash considered harmful

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Tue Dec 17 14:59:53 UTC 2013


On 9/14/13, 1:40 PM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Lately, I've been having no end of trouble with gvfsd-trash
> (gvfs-1.12.3_1 on 9.2-RC).  It automatically latches onto any new
> mounted filesystem and prevents unmounting, either permanently or, in
> the case of various nullfs mounts poudriere creates, just long enough
> for poudriere to fail and hose my package repo.  In addition, starting
> poudriere on 9.2-RC while gvfsd-trash is running it triggers a kernel
> panic - 100% reproducible, as soon as poudriere starts the builder
> jails.
>
> Google shows many similar complaints about gvfsd-trash from other OSes,
> but no solutions other than 'pkill -STOP gvfsd-trash'.  Killing it
> outright won't work, since gnome-session will just start a new instance.
>
> What can we do about this?

Sorry for the delay.  This should be fixed now with the latest glib20 
update.  All nullfs mounts should be ignored for trash volumes.

Joe

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