console-kit-daemon leaking file descriptors?

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Sun Apr 19 20:07:05 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 21:04 +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 02:45:21AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 18:32 +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:59:32PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> [...]
> > > > Then that means you have a deeper problem.  Most likely you do not have
> > > > procfs mounted on /proc.  The console or /var/log/messages should have
> > > > warnings.
> > > 
> > > Hmm. Yes it does. I wasn't aware that GNOME required procfs mounted.
> > 
> > It's in the general GNOME FAQ and HAL FAQ.  You definitely need procfs
> > mounted.
> 
> The wording in both the FAQs appear to imply that procfs is optional.
> Perhaps it should be changed to say that procfs is required for GNOME
> to function correctly?

How does this sound optional:

"All users _MUST_ have procfs mounted on /proc."

That's from the HAL FAQ.

Joe

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