When I tried to click on one of the launchers in the panel, I got the following error: "Failed to create pipe for communicating with child process (Too many open files)" /proc/$PID/fd has 1024 files in it, out of which there are 1012 dir links all pointing to /opt/xfce4/share/icons Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. I have following plugins: volume control, weather checker, clock and pager. All of it are packages for Arch Linux, I would guess stock.
Hmm, I would guess that this is caused by the icon theme handling in that case. Brian, any ideas?
Reporter: please attach the list of open file descriptors.
I am not sure if this is what you are asking for, but as it is now: [cabrilo@localhost fd]$ ls -al total 8 dr-x------ 2 cabrilo users 0 2005-07-17 15:53 . dr-xr-xr-x 3 cabrilo users 0 2005-07-17 15:52 .. lr-x------ 1 cabrilo users 64 2005-07-17 15:53 0 -> /dev/null lrwx------ 1 cabrilo users 64 2005-07-17 15:53 1 -> /dev/vc/1 lrwx------ 1 cabrilo users 64 2005-07-17 15:53 2 -> /dev/vc/1 lrwx------ 1 cabrilo users 64 2005-07-17 15:53 3 -> socket:[196685] lr-x------ 1 cabrilo users 64 2005-07-17 15:53 4 -> /opt/xfce4/share/icons lr-x------ 1 cabrilo users 64 2005-07-17 15:53 5 -> /opt/xfce4/share/icons lrwx------ 1 cabrilo users 64 2005-07-17 15:53 6 -> socket:[196697] lrwx------ 1 cabrilo users 64 2005-07-17 15:53 7 -> /dev/snd/controlC0 When the bug occured, it was similar, only with many more like 4 and 5, and several of them were pointing to /dev/snd/control0. Let me know if this is not what you needed.
Thanks, that's really helpful. I'm somewhat surprised that this is happening, but at least it gives me a few places to look. I'm out of town until Thursday, but I'll try to get to this on the weekend. Reassigning to me.
This should be fixed now, trunk and 4.2 branch. Please check and verify if you can.