Bug#852696: gvfs-fuse: automatically starts gvfsd and gvfsd-fuse in root user slice

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Thu Jan 26 15:19:14 UTC 2017


On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 at 14:54:20 +0100, Laurent Bonnaud wrote:
> I usually remotely log in (via ssh) as root on a system where gvfs
> packages are installed and I noticed that a gvfsd process and a gvfsd-fuse
> process are created for the root user:

I think those are started by D-Bus activation when some root process
(possibly multiple root processes) tries to communicate with them. You
could use `dbus-monitor --system` to find out what is trying to
communicate with them - it might well be something that shouldn't.

Or if you're willing to try dbus from experimental, the dbus-daemon
from that version logs to the Journal with information about which
process was the first to ask for a particular activation.

    S



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