Hi, I see this today too (gdm3 3.14.1-7 on amd64 Debian 8). strace shows
3654 <... inotify_init1 resumed> ) = -1 EMFILE (Too many open files) journalctl shows Feb 05 11:10:40 sec-282 gdm-session-worker[3654]: <5>AccountsService: Failed to monitor logind session changes: Too many open files Following https://kdecherf.com/blog/2015/09/12/systemd-and-the-fd-exhaustion/ I noticed that gdm-session-worker processes end up consuming all of root's inotify handles(?) # find /proc/*/fd/* -type l -lname 'anon_inode:inotify' -print 2>/dev/null | cut -d/ -f3 |xargs -I '{}' -- ps --no-headers -o '%U' -p '{}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr 127 root 18 lindi 1 messagebus 1 colord Running sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_instances=256 let's me login but I guess the real bug is still to be solved: Why are there so many "gdm-session-worker [pam/gdm-password]" processes? -Timo