In the merciless vendetta for purging hal we now reached another major milestone: gvfs, GNOME’s file system layer which handles USB storage as well as virtual file systems for libgphoto2 cameras, Bluetooth devices, audio CDs, or ftp/sftp/cifs mounts, is now fully ported to libgudev and doesn’t need hal at all any more. These long nights of porting weren’t in vain, after all \o/.
Now I just need to hassle David Zeuthen to apply the patches soon. Of course I couldn’t wait and already uploaded them to Karmic, so please test the hell out of it and let me know about problems.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Halsectomy is a little greener once again. 
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#1 by Nicolò Chieffo on 2009/07/03 - 12:19
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Is this why gvfs wants to auto-mount all my partitions (even if not in fstab), and to do this asks for my password?
#2 by martinpitt on 2009/07/03 - 12:50
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hal vs. devkit/udev isi not the cause, it’s just a bug. However, I believe it is fixed with the current gvfs upload.
#3 by ulrik on 2009/07/03 - 13:04
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what does gvfsd-http (or something similar) do? It uses a lot of memory and doesn’t exit to free it. Uninstalling the gvfs backends was a simple measure and the desktop still works (debian), but that backend needs some memory cleanup since it’s probably going to be included everywhere..
#4 by martinpitt on 2009/07/03 - 16:00
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Sounds like https://launchpad.net/bugs/225615, which was fixed in 9.04.
I think it provides common functionality for HTTP-based storage backends like webdav. At least the gvfs webdav backend uses its code.
#5 by Nicolò Chieffo on 2009/07/03 - 16:02
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I’ve just had the new upload, but unfortunately it does not fix it. maybe it’s not gvfs.
Thanks anyway
#6 by ulrik on 2009/07/03 - 19:29
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I was using a later 1.2.x release so I thought it wasn’t. Also, my standards for high memory usage go at much less MB. I mean gvfsd-http is a daemon, it shouldn’t be running when it’s not needed (auto-activation and then wait and disappear), and it should not use as much memory as a minor desktop application. In this case it was using memory like nautilus, sometimes more. All daemons with more than 30M resident memory ought to be disabled..
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