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

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 21:24, Mark Hannon wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> tbird:~> limit
> cputime 	unlimited
> filesize 	unlimited
> datasize 	524288 kbytes
> stacksize 	65536 kbytes
> coredumpsize 	unlimited
> memoryuse 	unlimited
> vmemoryuse 	unlimited
> descriptors 	3607
> memorylocked 	unlimited
> maxproc 	1803  s
> bsize 	unlimited
> tbird:~> uname -a
> FreeBSD tbird.home.lan 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun  5
> 02:55:42 GMT 2003
> root at wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> 
> tbird:~> pstat -T
> 3049/4008 files
> 0M/490M swap space
> 
> This was taken from a terminal directly after logging into gnome.
> 
> I spent some more time yestereday trying to dig into things and
> discovered that I have quite
> a few gnome programs that are linked to libraries in
> /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg.  Including lots
> that use atk.so.200 ... the funny thing is they are also use atk.so.400
> as well.
> 
> Should I delete the contents of /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg and rebuild
> these packages?  Could that
> be the cause of the problems?

Doubt it could be the direct cause of your problems, but you should
definitely follow the upgrade instructions at
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/ to ensure a correct GNOME 2.4 upgrade.

Joe

> 
> Rgds/mark
> 
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