Description of problem:
After playing with some seedit utilities I ended up unable to use any fuse file systems. Trying to mount a fuse system would just freeze along the way leaving the mount point in an intermediate state. For example trying to do 
 ls ~/.gvfs
would just hang. Another consequence is that nautilus would freeze when trying to look at my home directory (because of the presence of .gvfs)

After a lot of exploration I found that the culprit was the audit service and in particular a rule that got added by some utilites along the way.

Removing this rule fixed the problem. After this all fuse mount started to work again.

I guess this is probably a kernel bug...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 11
audit-1.7.13-1.fc11
a bunch of kernels:
kernel-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586, kernel-2.6.29.6-217.2.7.fc11.i586

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. have the the following rule in /etc/audit/audit.rules
-a exit,always -S chroot
2. have the auditd service started
3. Try to mount any fuse filesystem (logging in in gnome will try to mount
     ~/.gvfs)
4. Any access to the mount will block, for example try:
    ls ~/.gvfs
5. Also note that some additional processes are left running (like a mount -i ...)
  
Actual results:
The ls just hangs there and does not return to the shell unless it is killed.

Expected results:
The ls should run normally, display results (maybe nothing) and return to the shell.