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Description of problem: Whenever I try to call either gvfs-open/xdg-open with URL, I get gvfsd running in 100% on my one core. Fortunately, I have two so I was able to install and run http://sourceware.org/systemtap/examples/process/forktracker.stp which shown this interesting thing (part of the endlessly repeating pattern) Wed Oct 5 23:41:22 2011 : gvfs-open (22542) created 22543 Wed Oct 5 23:41:22 2011 : gvfs-open (22543) created 22544 Wed Oct 5 23:41:22 2011 : gvfs-open (22544) is exec'ing /home/matej/repos/jetpack/bin/xdg-open Wed Oct 5 23:41:22 2011 : gvfs-open (22544) is exec'ing /home/matej/.bin/xdg-open Wed Oct 5 23:41:22 2011 : gvfs-open (22544) is exec'ing /usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin/xdg-open Wed Oct 5 23:41:22 2011 : gvfs-open (22544) is exec'ing /usr/local/bin/xdg-open Wed Oct 5 23:41:22 2011 : gvfs-open (22544) is exec'ing /usr/bin/xdg-open Wed Oct 5 23:41:22 2011 : xdg-open (22544) created 22545 Wed Oct 5 23:41:22 2011 : xdg-open (22545) is exec'ing /usr/bin/gvfs-open Wed Oct 5 23:41:22 2011 : xdg-open (22544) created 22546 Wed Oct 5 23:41:22 2011 : xdg-open (22546) is exec'ing /usr/bin/gvfs-open Wed Oct 5 23:41:22 2011 : gvfs-open (22546) created 22547 Wed Oct 5 23:41:22 2011 : gvfs-open (22547) created 22548 By downgrading from F16 to RHEL 6.2, I have somehow achieved that my preferred browser (in gnome-default-applications-properties) was set to xdg-open. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mitmanek:~# rpm -qf /usr/bin/gvfs-open /usr/bin/xdg-open gvfs-1.4.3-13.el6.x86_64 xdg-utils-1.0.2-17.20091016cvs.el6.noarch How reproducible: 100% on my system Steps to Reproduce: 1. set in gnome-default-applications-properties xdg-open as a default browser 2. either xdg-open http://www.google.com or gvfs-open http://www.google.com 2. 3. Actual results: systemtap shows these two commands looping Expected results: URL opened in something reasonable or Additional info: settting firefox as my default browser clears the sitaution.
Since RHEL 6.2 External Beta has begun, and this bug remains unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as exception or blocker. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
xdg-open is just shell script which calls gvfs-open to open preferred application under gnome. So endless loop is created if your preferred application for anything is xdg-open. However this isn't bug, but this is wrong configuration...