Bug#831329: gvfsd continuously tries to create /var/cache/samba

[Luke Faraone]

Package: libgnomevfs2-0
Version: 1:2.24.4-6.1+b1
Severity: normal

Upon associating with a network (with NetworkManager), I see the following
repeated a half-dozen times in the system journal:

Jul 14 08:38:45 cobalt org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[8421]: mkdir failed on directory /var/cache/samba: Permission denied
Jul 14 08:38:45 cobalt org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[8421]: mkdir failed on directory /var/cache/samba: Permission denied
Jul 14 08:38:46 cobalt org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[8421]: mkdir failed on directory /var/cache/samba: Permission denied
Jul 14 08:38:46 cobalt org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[8421]: mkdir failed on directory /var/cache/samba: Permission denied
Jul 14 08:38:47 cobalt org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[8421]: ** (gvfsd:8446): WARNING **: dbus_mount_reply: Error from org.gtk.vfs.Mountable.mount(): Failed to retrieve share list from server: Connection refused
Jul 14 08:38:47 cobalt org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[8421]: mkdir failed on directory /var/cache/samba: Permission denied
Jul 14 08:38:47 cobalt org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[8421]: mkdir failed on directory /var/cache/samba: Permission denied
Jul 14 08:38:47 cobalt org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[8421]: ** (process:9964): WARNING **: Couldn't create directory monitor on smb://x-gnome-default-workgroup/. Error: The specified location is not mounted

There is no ``/var/cache/samba`` path on my system.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libgnomevfs2-0 depends on:
ii gconf-service 3.2.6-3
ii libacl1 2.2.52-3
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.32-1
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.32-1
ii libavahi-glib1 0.6.32-1
ii libc6 2.23-1
ii libdbus-1-3 1.10.8-1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.106-1
ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.6-3
ii libglib2.0-0 2.48.1-1
ii libgnomevfs2-common 1:2.24.4-6.1
ii libgnutls30 3.4.14-1
ii libselinux1 2.5-3
ii libxml2 2.9.3+dfsg1-1.2
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

Versions of packages libgnomevfs2-0 recommends:
ii libgnomevfs2-extra 1:2.24.4-6.1+b1

Versions of packages libgnomevfs2-0 suggests:
pn libgnomevfs2-bin <none>

-- no debconf information

[Daniel Hornung]

This can still be reproduced for gvfs 1.34.1-1:

Okt 23 15:50:06 xxxx gvfsd[1440]: mkdir failed on directory
/var/cache/samba: Permission denied
Okt 23 15:50:06 xxxx gvfsd[1440]: mkdir failed on directory
/var/cache/samba: Permission denied
Okt 23 15:50:06 xxxx gvfsd[1440]: mkdir failed on directory
/var/cache/samba: Permission denied
Okt 23 15:50:43 xxxx gvfsd[1440]: mkdir failed on directory
/var/cache/samba: Permission denied
Okt 23 15:50:43 xxxx gvfsd[1440]: mkdir failed on directory
/var/cache/samba: Permission denied
Okt 23 15:50:43 xxxx gvfsd[1440]: mkdir failed on directory
/var/cache/samba: Permission denied

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[Joshua Crowgey]

I can reproduce the issue:

...
May 8 14:22:57 corylus gvfsd[1583]: mkdir failed on directory
/var/cache/samba: Permission denied
May 8 14:22:57 corylus gvfsd[1583]: mkdir failed on directory
/var/cache/samba: Permission denied
May 8 14:22:57 corylus gvfsd[1583]: mkdir failed on directory
/var/cache/samba: Permission denied
May 8 14:22:57 corylus gvfsd[1583]: mkdir failed on directory
/var/cache/samba: Permission denied
May 8 14:22:57 corylus gvfsd[1583]: mkdir failed on directory
/var/cache/samba: Permission denied
May 8 14:22:57 corylus gvfsd[1583]: mkdir failed on directory
/var/cache/samba: Permission denied
May 8 14:22:57 corylus gvfsd[1583]: mkdir failed on directory
/var/cache/samba: Permission denied
May 8 14:22:57 corylus gvfsd-network[11025]: Couldn't create directory
monitor on smb://x-gnome-default-workgroup/. Error: Operation not
supported by backend
...


But I don't have any libgnomevfs installed:

j@corylus:/proc$ apt-cache policy libgnomevfs*
libgnomevfs2-bin:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:2.24.4-6.1+b2
Version table:
1:2.24.4-6.1+b2 900
900 http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian stable/main amd64
Packages
libgnomevfs2-dev:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:2.24.4-6.1+b2
Version table:
1:2.24.4-6.1+b2 900
900 http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian stable/main amd64
Packages
libgnomevfs2-0-dbg:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:2.24.4-6.1+b2
Version table:
1:2.24.4-6.1+b2 900
900 http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian stable/main amd64
Packages
libgnomevfs2-common:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:2.24.4-6.1
Version table:
1:2.24.4-6.1 900
900 http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian stable/main amd64
Packages
900 http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian stable/main i386 Packages
libgnomevfs2-0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:2.24.4-6.1+b2
Version table:
1:2.24.4-6.1+b2 900
900 http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian stable/main amd64
Packages
libgnomevfs2-extra:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:2.24.4-6.1+b2
Version table:
1:2.24.4-6.1+b2 900
900 http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian stable/main amd64
Packages


As you see, this is on debian stable. Lot's of spam in syslog about
/var/cache/samba creation attempts.

--Joshua

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Nov 15 04:25:46 jidanni7 gvfsd[1099]: mkdir failed on directory /var/cache/samba: Permission denied
Nov 15 04:25:47 jidanni7 gvfsd[1099]: mkdir failed on directory /var/cache/samba: Permission denied
Nov 15 04:25:48 jidanni7 gvfsd[1099]: mkdir failed on directory /var/cache/samba: Permission denied
Nov 15 04:25:49 jidanni7 gvfsd[1099]: mkdir failed on directory /var/cache/samba: Permission denied
Nov 15 04:25:50 jidanni7 gvfsd[1099]: mkdir failed on directory /var/cache/samba: Permission denied
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/1758653