Re: Problems with fresh install of CentOS 7, fully updated, and gvfsd-admin backend.

[Ondrej Holy <oholy redhat com>]

Hi Spork,

2018-02-09 23:29 GMT+01:00 Spork Schivago <sporkschivago gmail com>:

Hello,

I'm running a fresh install of CentOS 7, fully updated, with the epel and google repositories added to my repo list.

yum info gvfs.x86_64 shows

 Version 1.30.4

 Release 3.el7

This package provides gvfsd and the backends, including gvfsd-admin.   I noticed a typo in the man-page for gvfsd while I was trying to trouble shoot a problem I'm having and thought I should mention that first, in case it's not fixed in the latest upstream release.   I see the following text in the man-page for gvfsd:

...

 It spawns new backends when requested and keeps track fo their lifecycle,

 maintaining a list of active mounts and creates direct connections to

 them.

...

I believe 'keeps track fo their lifecycle' should actually read 'keeps track of their lifecycle'.

Thanks for the patch, you have already provided...
 

My main problem is when I try to use the gvfsd-admin backend, it fails.   For example, in Nautilus, I hit CTRL-L and type admin:///root   and eventually, it times out.    Same with gedit.

I've even tried using gio list admin:///root

I followed the debugging instructions located at:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gvfs/debugging

And every time I try to access a directory or file using the admin-backend (which I believe gvfsd should be starting automatically), I see the following message:

Yes, it should be automounted.

 

Refusing to render service to dead parents.

I have never seen such error and I don't have any idea currently what might be its source.

 

I've reached out to the CentOS 7 forum members to see if they could possibly reproduce the error, but I haven't received a response yet and I'm not sure how to continue.    Would anyone know what I might be doing wrong here?

As a temporary work-around, I create a Gnome auto-start file that executes a bash script that executes:

 pkexec /usr/libexec/gvfsd-admin --address $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

That's it is not definitely right way to do, but might work...

 

And this allows me to successfully use the backend.   dmesg shows:

42094.083046] fuse init (API version 7.22)

[42098.844999] warning: `gvfsd-admin' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use)

But I don't think gvfsd-admin using 32-bit capabilities is causing my issue.    Any suggestions?

Yes, this is not probably the issue here..

 

I apologize if this is the wrong place to ask.   The mailing list page said:
This list is about development and use of gvfs, a virtual filesystem implementation for gio. 

So to me, because this involves the use of gvfs, and it's backends, I thought it was the perfect place to get help.

Yes, this is perfect place :-)

Let me try in RHEL 7 first and I will then let you know...

Regards

Ondrej
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Ondrej Holy
Software Engineer, Core Desktop Development
Red Hat Czech s.r.o