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

[Julian Andres Klode]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Julian Andres Klode <jak at 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.
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Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

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