Bug#726454: gnome-shell: Reads files on (gvfs-show) mountpoints after unlock

[Julian Andres Klode]

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.

-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.

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