[olug] What is fuse and why is it borking my system?

[Kevin D. Snodgrass]

Was checking to see what process had a file open in /tmp, got a weird error message:

# lsof *
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system /home/kevin/.gvfs
      Output information may be incomplete.



So I investigated more and found this:

# ls -al /home/kevin
drwxrwxr-x   2 kevin kevin    4096 2010-02-22 05:01 .gstreamer-0.10
-rw-rw-r--   1 kevin kevin     136 2010-02-28 07:20 .gtk-bookmarks
-rw-rw-r--   1 kevin kevin     136 2009-11-20 10:06 .gtk-bookmarks.PYV03U
d??????????  ? ?     ?           ?                ? .gvfs
-rw-------.  1 kevin kevin   15273 2010-02-28 07:20 .ICEauthority

I snipped away lots of entries before and after.  What's the .gvfs, why is it a directory and why all the '?'s ?

Only thing I have ever done with 'fuse' was read the description in the .rpm.  Something about a filesystem in usespace.  It doesn't even have a friggin' man page!

So, I do more checking:

# ps aux|grep fuse
kevin     1874  0.0  0.2  37848  2276 ?        Ssl  07:20   0:00 /usr/libexec//gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/kevin/.gvfs
root      2601  0.0  0.0   4192   708 pts/1    S+   07:38   0:00 grep fuse


# lsmod|grep fuse
fuse                   49280  2 

# uname -r
2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i586



Note:  Fedora 11, stock, updated, nothing tricky.
       Computer is an AMD64 laptop.
       This is immediately after a reboot, at 7:20AM

Kevin D. Snodgrass