I also had this problem. After leaving my computer on for 150+ days, I found that this deamon used 54 Mb of memory for three instances. After restarting the deamon they only used 1148Kb of memory. The system has no smart card readers attached.
restarting the deamon gives the following messages in /var/log/messages: --------------------- Apr 5 11:44:23 janvier pcscd: winscard_msg.c:185:SHMProcessEventsServer() Select returns with failure: Interrupted system call Apr 5 11:44:23 janvier pcscd: pcscdaemon.c:156:SVCServiceRunLoop() Error in SHMProcessEventsServer Apr 5 11:44:25 janvier pcscd: debuglog.c:135:DebugLogSetLevel() debug level=error --------------------- Regarding the questions in your mail to Daniel on this bug, the directory /usr/lib/pcsc/ doesn't exist on my system and the reader.conf has the following content, after running the update-reader.conf command (I did this more than once after the restart of the deamon, so the .old file was unfortunately also overwritten): ================================================== # Configuration file for pcsc-lite Debian package # Ludovic Rousseau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # # Do NOT edit this file directly but use update-reader.conf(8) instead. # # If the driver you use support debconf (for example libgempc410 does) use # 'dpkg-reconfigure package-name' (dpkg-reconfigure libgempc410) # If the driver you use DO NOT create a NEW file under # /etc/reader.conf.d/ that will contain something like (without comment): # FRIENDLYNAME Any name # DEVICENAME device filename used by the reader: # /dev/ttyS0 for the first serial port # or /dev/null if this is not used by the driver # LIBPATH Location of the driver library for your reader # CHANNELID # 0x0103F8 or 1 for /dev/ttyS0 (COM1) # 0x0102F8 or 2 for /dev/ttyS1 (COM2) # 0x0103E8 or 3 for /dev/ttyS2 (COM3) # 0x0102E8 or 4 for /dev/ttyS3 (COM4) # ### update-reader.conf: end processing /etc/reader.conf.d/0comments ### update-reader.conf: start processing /etc/reader.conf.d/libccidtwin # ## Gemplus GemPCTwin reader with serial communication ## n is the serial port to use n in [1..4] #FRIENDLYNAME "GemPCTwin serial" #DEVICENAME /dev/pcsc/n #LIBPATH /usr/lib/pcsc/drivers/serial/libccidtwin.so.0.9.3 #CHANNELID n ### update-reader.conf: end processing /etc/reader.conf.d/libccidtwin ================================================== I hope this is of some help, i will monitor the /var/log/messages file if any other messages appear. Regards, Geert-Jan Hut. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
