gnome2-2.16.1_2 - kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 2 & 560 (kmem & haldaemon)

[Jeffrey Racine]

Many thanks! 

-- Jeff

On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 14:11 -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:36:58 -0500, Jeffrey Racine <racinej at mcmaster.ca>  
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi.
> >
> > I have been experiencing some problems and was wondering whether anyone
> > else has encountered this. I am running FreeBSD  6.1, and recently
> > upgraded to gnome 2.16.
> >
> > I have had to restart gnome a number of times, and have been unable to
> > log in remotely at times due to this problem.
> >
> >> From /var/log/messages....
> >
> > Oct 25 04:11:00 pc-racine1 kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid
> > 2, please see tuning(7).
> > Oct 25 04:11:01 pc-racine1 kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid
> > 560, please see tuning(7).
> >
> >> From /etc/group
> >
> > kmem:*:2:
> > haldaemon:*:560:
> >
> > Any suggestions as to how to proceed to track down the culprit would be
> > appreciated.
> 
> Check in devel/gamin/pkg-message.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mezz
> 
> > -- Jeff
> 
> 
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