Comment 67 for bug 634554

Ok - and let me add...

Today I noticed that cron.daily had stopped running. The cron error log said that /etc/cron.daily was locked by another process... seemed simple, until lsof /etc/cron.daily also hung.

I was rather perplexed. lsof without parameters also hung. Turned off selinux (setenforce 0) ... same issue.

did strace lsof /etc/cron.daily... low and behold, last line was a user's /home/<user>/.gvfs.

Killed all the mounts (fusermount, mount, daemon, etc.) and anacron kicked right in and started running the overdue jobs.

Needless to say, that user space activities affect system administrative functions isn't really a good thing.

I have looked at the upstream bug reports, and would suggest absent the necessary upstream philosophical changes that fedora disable the feature by default.