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

[Carl Lundstedt]

Fuse is used to mount filesystems with user priv.  If you plug in a USB 
drive or mount a filesystem using ssh or the like it uses fuse.  I'd 
wager you're running gnome.  Gnome does some clever things to allow you 
to automount devices.

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