diff --git a/daemons/lvmdbusd/background.py b/daemons/lvmdbusd/background.py
index 90e8b6881..3b77a7cc6 100644
--- a/daemons/lvmdbusd/background.py
+++ b/daemons/lvmdbusd/background.py
@@ -158,5 +158,6 @@ def _run_cmd(req):
 
 
 def cmd_runner(request):
-	t = threading.Thread(target=_run_cmd, args=(request,))
+	t = threading.Thread(target=_run_cmd, args=(request,),
+							name="cmd_runner %s" % str(request.method))
 	t.start()
diff --git a/daemons/lvmdbusd/fetch.py b/daemons/lvmdbusd/fetch.py
index c053685a1..69a4aae04 100644
--- a/daemons/lvmdbusd/fetch.py
+++ b/daemons/lvmdbusd/fetch.py
@@ -152,7 +152,8 @@ class StateUpdate(object):
 		load(refresh=False, emit_signal=False, need_main_thread=False)
 
 		self.thread = threading.Thread(target=StateUpdate.update_thread,
-										args=(self,))
+										args=(self,),
+										name="StateUpdate.update_thread")
 
 	def load(self, refresh=True, emit_signal=True, cache_refresh=True,
 					log=True, need_main_thread=True):
diff --git a/daemons/lvmdbusd/main.py b/daemons/lvmdbusd/main.py
index ff9768374..dc31b6f0d 100644
--- a/daemons/lvmdbusd/main.py
+++ b/daemons/lvmdbusd/main.py
@@ -138,7 +138,8 @@ def main():
 
 	# Using a thread to process requests, we cannot hang the dbus library
 	# thread that is handling the dbus interface
-	thread_list.append(threading.Thread(target=process_request))
+	thread_list.append(threading.Thread(target=process_request,
+										name='process_request'))
 
 	# Have a single thread handling updating lvm and the dbus model so we
 	# don't have multiple threads doing this as the same time