Bug#624507: closed by Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> (Bug#624507: fixed in gvfs 1.12.3-4)

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi Josh,

 > Quite possibly a good idea, but note that the my original report
 > occurred with a local filesystem, not a remote filesystem.

Are you absolutely sure that it happened on a local filesystem in your 
case and not on a home directory mounted over NFS?

I'm having a hard time to believe that you observed the behavior on a 
local filesystem since it is triggered by concurrent access problems of 
two instances of gvfsd-metadata running on two individual machines 
having access to the same filesystem over NFS.

The problem will not occur with two instances of the daemon running on 
the same machine, i.e. when accessing a local filesystem, since the 
kernel will perform concurrent accesses to the database with memory mapping.

Please see the detailed analysis by Michael Karcher on this issue where 
he explains why the bug only occurs when accessing the database over 
remote filesystems [1].

If you are really seeing this issue with local filesystems, you are 
really encouraged to file a new bug report.

On a sidenote, Red Hat has acknowledged this bug now in an internal bug 
report and is working on a proper fix now after an important customer 
complained seeing this issue on their machines.

Cheers,

Adrian

 > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561904#c30

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