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Package: xprint
Version: 1:0.1.0.alpha1-13
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software
/etc/init.d/xprint sets "ulimit -n 1024".
This makes other programs break with "too many open files", but more
importantly,
i can't set a higher ulimit in bash:
$ ulimit -n 8192
-bash: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted
My workaround was to "update-rc.d -f xprint remove" since i don't need printing
anyway.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (600, 'testing'), (550, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-amd64-k8-smp
Locale: LANG=sv_SE, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages xprint depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libice6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libsm6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management
ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxau6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Authentication library
ii libxaw7 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Athena widget set library
ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxp6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System printing extension
ii libxpm4 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X pixmap library
ii libxt6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii xprint-common 1:0.1.0.alpha1-13 Xprint - the X11 print system (con
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime
xprint recommends no packages.
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 01:47:37PM +0100, Christoffer Hammarström wrote:
> Package: xprint
> Version: 1:0.1.0.alpha1-13
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks unrelated software
> /etc/init.d/xprint sets "ulimit -n 1024".
> This makes other programs break with "too many open files", but more
> importantly,
> i can't set a higher ulimit in bash:
> $ ulimit -n 8192
> -bash: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted
> My workaround was to "update-rc.d -f xprint remove" since i don't need
> printing anyway.
I'm sorry, there is no way that this is a bug in xprint.
From bash(1):
ulimit [-SHacdfilmnpqstuvx [limit]]
Provides control over the resources available to the shell and
to processes started by it, on systems that allow such control.
Your user sessions are not being launched from /etc/init.d/xprint. There is
no way that it's xprint's fault if ulimits in unrelated processes aren't
working correctly.
You may want to take this issue to debian-devel or debian-user, for help in
figuring out what's going on; but if this problem is really triggered by
xprint as you describe, then it really sounds like a kernel, shell, or
sysv-rc bug to me, because ulimit settings from one shell must not
contaminate ulimit settings for other processes.
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