lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system /home/....../.gvfs

[phpete48]

Hi.

My application gives me the following bug:
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system /home/..../.gvfs
This was run as root.

I searched and found that this may be due to the permissions on the file .gvfs.
I also found the warning can be supressed by the -w option to lsof. But, this
doesn't really fix the problem. Should I change permissions on the file?
If so, how should this be done?

thank you.
pete

[jpollard]

It won't help.

This is a FUSE filesystem used by gnome for various services.

See the following:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=258225

[phpete48]

Based on someone's suggestion, this URL had the following solution
http://grumbel.blogspot.com/2008/05/...with-gvfs.html
gvfs-mount ssh://user@host

But, when I run this command, the result is this bug:
Error mounting location: volume doesn't implement mount

I googled it, but I didn't find any answers that cleared it up.
How should I proceed from here?

thanks,
pete.

[jpollard]

Comes up every couple of days:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=258225

This is because gvfs is not a filesystem it is a memory resident tree
representing configuration controls for gnome.

Root doesn't have access because the process presenting the tree doesn't support it.

You will always get this error when you are logged via the GUI and using
gnome. A varient exists, I believe, for KDE.

You will also get this error if the user is terminated (kill -9) because
the process implementing the filesystem is aborted, leaving the mountpoint corrupted in the system cache (dentry I believe it is).

Ignore it.