Recent process... 

--> sudo apt remove gvfs

then killing all the related processes...  I couldn't find a service for gvfs,
and didn't think of it until after I removed it...  so... try to disable and stop the service for gvfs first,
then remove the packages.


NOTES FROM ATTEMPT in 2017 on SuSE.
------------------------------------------------
luser@penguin [/home/luser]
------------------------------------------------
--> sudo zypper remove gvfs
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...

The following 12 packages are going to be REMOVED:
  gvfs gvfs-backend-afc gvfs-backends gvfs-backend-samba gvfs-lang mate-menu mate-menu-lang mate-panel mate-panel-branding-openSUSE
  mate-panel-lang pcmanfm pcmanfm-lang

12 packages to remove.
After the operation, 16.9 MiB will be freed.
Continue? [y/n/? shows all options] (y): y
( 1/12) Removing gvfs-backend-afc-1.28.3-2.2.x86_64 .......................................................................................[done]
( 2/12) Removing gvfs-backend-samba-1.28.3-2.2.x86_64 .....................................................................................[done]
( 3/12) Removing gvfs-lang-1.28.3-2.2.noarch ..............................................................................................[done]
( 4/12) Removing mate-menu-lang-5.7.1-1.2.noarch ..........................................................................................[done]
( 5/12) Removing mate-panel-lang-1.16.0-1.2.noarch ........................................................................................[done]
( 6/12) Removing pcmanfm-lang-1.2.3-3.4.noarch ............................................................................................[done]
( 7/12) Removing mate-panel-branding-openSUSE-42.1-1.5.noarch .............................................................................[done]
( 8/12) Removing pcmanfm-1.2.3-3.4.x86_64 .................................................................................................[done]
( 9/12) Removing mate-panel-1.16.0-1.2.x86_64 .............................................................................................[done]
(10/12) Removing mate-menu-5.7.1-1.2.noarch ...............................................................................................[done]
(11/12) Removing gvfs-backends-1.28.3-2.2.x86_64 ..........................................................................................[done]
(12/12) Removing gvfs-1.28.3-2.2.x86_64 ...................................................................................................[done]
There are some running programs that might use files deleted by recent upgrade. 
You may wish to check and restart some of them. Run 'zypper ps -s' to list these programs.


checked luser, still running... --> ps -ef | grep gvfs luser 1719 1 0 21:05 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd luser 1761 1 0 21:05 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor luser 1903 1 0 21:05 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-goa-volume-monitor luser 1960 1 0 21:06 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-afc-volume-monitor luser 1966 1 0 21:06 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor luser 1971 1 0 21:06 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-mtp-volume-monitor luser 1985 1 0 21:06 ? 00:00:55 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-metadata luser 1992 1 0 21:06 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-trash --spawner :1.11 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/0 luser 5391 1 0 22:46 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-network --spawner :1.11 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/1 luser 5407 1 0 22:46 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-dnssd --spawner :1.11 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/3 luser 6040 5209 0 23:26 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto gvfs tried to kill -9 as a mere mortal... no happiness... respawned ------------------------------------------------ luser@penguin [/home/luser] ------------------------------------------------ --> kill -9 1719 ------------------------------------------------ luser@penguin [/home/luser] ------------------------------------------------ --> ps -ef | grep gvfs luser 1761 1 0 21:05 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor luser 1903 1 0 21:05 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-goa-volume-monitor luser 1960 1 0 21:06 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-afc-volume-monitor luser 1966 1 0 21:06 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor luser 1971 1 0 21:06 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-mtp-volume-monitor luser 1985 1 0 21:06 ? 00:00:55 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-metadata luser 1992 1 0 21:06 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-trash --spawner :1.11 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/0 luser 5391 1 0 22:46 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-network --spawner :1.11 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/1 luser 5407 1 0 22:46 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-dnssd --spawner :1.11 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/3 luser 6042 5209 0 23:27 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto gvfs tried to kill -9 as root, note PIDs 1992, 5391 and 5407 above... spawner but needed to kill all associated processes, so... ------------------------------------------------ luser@penguin [/home/luser] ------------------------------------------------ --> sudo kill -9 1761 1903 1960 1966 1971 1985 1992 5391 5407 ------------------------------------------------ luser@penguin [/home/luser] ------------------------------------------------ --> ps -ef | grep gvfs luser 6046 5209 0 23:27 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto gvfs ------------------------------------------------ gone... slowly but surely I'll have a clean Linux system... will need to go back to these notes and write a clean script. 4 Jan 2017

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