Package: gvfs Version: 1.6.4-3 Severity: important File: gvfsd-metadata I just had gvfsd-metadata start looping continuously in the background, rewriting metadata files. I grabbed a quick strace, then killed it. Repeating pattern in the strace:
open("/home/josh/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home-aec04c3b.log.9QPTUV", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0666) = 11 fcntl(11, F_GETFL) = 0x8002 (flags O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) fstat(11, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f508e87c000 lseek(11, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 0 write(11, "\332\32jour\1\0\256\300L;\0\0\200\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 32768) = 32768 fstatfs(11, {f_type="EXT2_SUPER_MAGIC", f_bsize=4096, f_blocks=18022671, f_bfree=8762318, f_bavail=8579218, f_files=4579328, f_ffree=4085656, f_fsid={1281784360, -1936016178}, f_name len=255, f_frsize=4096}) = 0 lstat("/home/josh/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home-aec04c3b.log", 0x7fff99738a40) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) close(11) = 0 munmap(0x7f508e87c000, 4096) = 0 rename("/home/josh/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home-aec04c3b.log.9QPTUV", "/home/josh/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home-aec04c3b.log") = 0 open("/home/josh/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home", O_RDWR) = 11 rename("/home/josh/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home.L2STUV", "/home/josh/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home") = 0 open("/home/josh/.local/share/gvfs-metadata", O_RDONLY) = 12 fsync(12) = 0 close(12) = 0 mmap(NULL, 16, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 11, 0) = 0x7f508e87c000 munmap(0x7f508e87c000, 16) = 0 close(11) = 0 unlink("/home/josh/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home-2aa65dd1.log") = 0 open("/home/josh/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home.43PUUV", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 11 write(11, "\332\32meta\1\0\0\0\0\0\3\321\307\25\0\0\1d\0\0\0 \0\0\0\0M\267\244\372"..., 1292) = 1292 fsync(11) = 0 close(11) = 0 This pattern seems to repeat infinitely, with only the hashes and mktemp extensions changing. This resulted in continous disk writes. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-rc4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gvfs depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-13 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.8-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libexpat1 2.0.1-7 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libgconf2-4 2.28.1-6 GNOME configuration database syste ii libgdu0 2.30.1-2 GObject based Disk Utility Library ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring0 3.0.0-2 GNOME keyring services library ii libudev0 168-1 libudev shared library ii x11-utils 7.6+1 X11 utilities Versions of packages gvfs recommends: ii dbus 1.4.8-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii policykit-1-gnome 0.101-2 GNOME authentication agent for Pol Versions of packages gvfs suggests: ii gvfs-backends 1.6.4-3 userspace virtual filesystem - bac -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org