Bug#611135: gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor (and gvfs-afc-volume-monitor) are respawned continuously, proc goes 100%

[Nicolas JEAN]

Package: gvfs
Version: 1.6.4-3
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

Hi dear debian people,

At some point (I was not able to discover the preconditions yet), my system
starts spawning gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor (and/or gvfs-afc-volume-monitor). There
seem to be a problem with them, because they are respawned automatically: you
can see their pids soar in gnome-system-monitor, for example.
Problem is, this brings the cpu to 100%; and for an unknown reason makes some
software not display anything anymore (e.g. nautilus).

I fix this problem by running
$ killall [-9] /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-afc-
volume-monitor
when it occurs. This works most of the time, but sometimes it just goes on and
I'm good to restart.

This might be bound to a config problem, since I copied most of the hidden file
in ~ from the ubuntu install I ran before installing unstable.
I have no idea where this comes from neither do I know what log/config file I
could provide to help, but I would be happy to do so!

Thanks in advance for your advice,
Nicolas



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gvfs depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-9   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.24-4   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                  2.24.2-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0             2.30.1-1   GNOME keyring services library
ii  libudev0                      164-4      libudev shared library
ii  x11-utils                     7.5+4      X11 utilities

Versions of packages gvfs recommends:
ii  dbus                          1.2.24-4   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  policykit-1-gnome             0.96-3     GNOME authentication agent for Pol

Versions of packages gvfs suggests:
ii  gvfs-backends                 1.6.4-3    userspace virtual filesystem - bac

-- no debconf information