On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Julian Andres Klode <j...@debian.org> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 12:13:43AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Am 16.10.2013 00:05, schrieb Julian Andres Klode: >> > Package: gnome-shell >> > Version: 3.8.4-4 >> > Severity: normal >> > >> > If I unlock my screen, the gnome-shell process reads files from my hard >> > disk >> > mounted using udisks2; but the process was running all the time anyway, so >> > it's pointless to re-read the disk on an unlock, as nothing has changed. >> > >> > This may be a bug in a library used by gnome-shell, I could not analyse >> > this further. >> >> How do you know it is gnome-shell which reads from your hard disk? >> You mentioned /media/<user> something on IRC, so I assume this is only >> for external drives? >> >> Could you switch to a console and check with fuser / lsof which process >> is reading from /media? > > I had a loop running lsof -n | grep SecondHome (the mount point is > /media/SecondHome) in the background (started before locking the > screen). After the unlock, various files were listed there, all > opened by the gnome-shell process; and not for very long.
Just for the public record: The process doing this is /usr/lib/gnome-shell/gnome-shell-hotplug-sniffer It seems to recursively scan the mime types on the device, AFAICT. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org