Your message dated Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:56:13 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1127746: fixed in motion 4.7.1-2
has caused the Debian Bug report #1127746,
regarding motion leaks file descriptors leading to missing recordings
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1127746: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1127746
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Package: motion
Version: 4.7.0-3
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss
Dear Maintainer,
Sometimes, motion stops recording. When I inspect the process,
it has open files pointing to old recordings (by looking at
/proc/<PID>/fd/).
When running strace, there are plenty of EMFILES errors.
Restarting the process makes it work again. But by the time, the
issue is noticed, lots of recordings have been lost, which is a
serious data loss.
I cannot tell what leads to this situation. My only guess would
be that I have a cronjob that removes old files (more than 30
days old).
I would like to close saying that I appreciate the work done in
maintaining the package.
Thanks.
Cascardo.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.57+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages motion depends on:
ii adduser 3.152
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.91
ii libavcodec61 7:7.1.3-0+deb13u1
ii libavdevice61 7:7.1.3-0+deb13u1
ii libavformat61 7:7.1.3-0+deb13u1
ii libavutil59 7:7.1.3-0+deb13u1
ii libc6 2.41-12+deb13u1
ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:2.1.5-4
ii libmariadb3 1:11.8.3-0+deb13u1
ii libmicrohttpd12t64 1.0.1-4
ii libpq5 17.7-0+deb13u1
ii libsqlite3-0 3.46.1-7
ii libswscale8 7:7.1.3-0+deb13u1
Versions of packages motion recommends:
ii ffmpeg 7:7.1.3-0+deb13u1
Versions of packages motion suggests:
pn default-mysql-client <none>
pn postgresql-client <none>
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/motion/camera1-dist.conf [file not found]
/etc/motion/camera2-dist.conf [file not found]
/etc/motion/camera3-dist.conf [file not found]
/etc/motion/camera4-dist.conf [file not found]
/etc/motion/motion.conf changed [not included]
-- debconf information excluded
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: motion
Source-Version: 4.7.1-2
Done: Nicolas Mora <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
motion, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Nicolas Mora <[email protected]> (supplier of updated motion package)
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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:25:48 -0400
Source: motion
Architecture: source
Version: 4.7.1-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Nicolas Mora <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Nicolas Mora <[email protected]>
Closes: 1127746 1137740
Changes:
motion (4.7.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo]
* d/patches: Apply fix_file_leak.patch (Closes: #1127746)
.
[Nicolas Mora]
* d/control: Remove Priority: Optional
* d/control: Update standards version to 4.7.4
* d/control: Update debhelper compat version to 14
* d/control: use libmariadb-dev-compat instead of default-libmysqlclient-dev
(Closes: #1137740)
* d/motion.install: Add install file to comply with debhelper 14
* d/patches: Add glibc-2.43.patch to fix glibc 2.43 warnings
* d/rules: Update motion.conf rename path to comply with debhelper 14
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