5.1-RELEASE / gnome-2.4 / too many files open

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 08:01, Mark Hannon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just (more or less accidently) upgrade to Gnome-2.4 on a 5.1-RELEASE
> box which was previously
> running Gnome-2.2.  A check of portversion shows that all packages are
> at their latests versions however
> I am unable to use gnome ...
> 
> The desktop starts, I can open nautilus, but when I try to open a
> sub-directory the system bogs down
> and eventually I get a message saying 'too many open files'.  At this
> point the system is unusable, it
> is not possible to start a new command, login from another terminal etc.
> Killing XFree makes things
> usable again.

Send a copy of your kernel config as well as the output or limit for
your GNOME user.

Joe

> 
> My xsession-errors files includes:
> 
> SESSION_MANAGER=local/tbird.home.lan:/tmp/.ICE-unix/26687
> Window manager warning: Broken client! Window 0x600010 (xconsole)
> changed client leader window or SM client ID
> mapping method init - connect2: Connection refused
> 
> (nautilus:26724): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: module
> '/usr/X11R6/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libmapping.so' returned a NULL
> handle
> Unable to open desktop file eek-004935fc89.desktop for panel launcher:
> Error reading file
> 'file:///home/mark/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/eek-004935fc89.des
> ktop': File not found
> Unable to open desktop file greasy-00a317c073.desktop for panel
> launcher: Error reading file
> 'file:///home/mark/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/greasy-00a317c073.
> desktop': File not found
> yp_next: clnt_call: RPC: Unable to send; errno = Too many open files in
> system
> 
> <snip ... 27 megabytes more of the same message>
> 
> yp_next: clnt_call: RPC: Unable to send; errno = Too many open files in
> system
> Window manager warning: Lost connection to the display ':0.0';
> most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
> the window manager.
> The application 'gnome-panel' lost its connection to the display :0.0;
> most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
> the application.
> ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 26694, errno = 0
> The application 'nautilus' lost its connection to the display :0.0;
> most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
> the application.
> 
> What can I try next in order to debug further?
> 
> Regards/Mark
> 
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