#journalctl -b | grep gsd-housekeepin | wc -l 100067 Going for #5 by Janne since nothing else works (annoying task to keep performing). It is also the suggestion by Fedora maintainers as systemd does the same task of cleaning tmp (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1563445)
Upstream reports: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/issues/26 ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #1563445 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1563445 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1745666 Title: gsd-housekeeping leaks file descriptors Status in gnome-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Apparently a process called gsd-housekeeping is periodically invoked on my Ubuntu 17.10 system. It traverses my /var/tmp for some reason. Looks like it is leaking file descriptors while doing so. My syslogs are full of error messages like the following: Jan 26 20:21:42 snail gsd-housekeepin[3178]: Failed to enumerate children of /var/tmp/chmaa-backup/usr/include/c++/5/bits/stl_raw_storage_iter.h: Error opening directory '/var/tmp/chmaa-backup/usr/include/c++/5/bits/stl_raw_storage_iter.h': Too many open files Jan 26 20:21:42 snail gsd-housekeepin[3178]: Failed to enumerate children of /var/tmp/chmaa-backup/usr/include/c++/5/bits/basic_string.h: Error opening directory '/var/tmp/chmaa-backup/usr/include/c++/5/bits/basic_string.h': Too many open files Jan 26 20:21:42 snail gsd-housekeepin[3178]: Failed to enumerate children of /var/tmp/chmaa-backup/usr/include/c++/5/bits/quoted_string.h: Error opening directory '/var/tmp/chmaa-backup/usr/include/c++/5/bits/quoted_string.h': Too many open files Jan 26 20:21:42 snail gsd-housekeepin[3178]: Failed to enumerate children of /var/tmp/chmaa-backup/usr/include/c++/5/bits/postypes.h: Error opening directory '/var/tmp/chmaa-backup/usr/include/c++/5/bits/postypes.h': Too many open files Jan 26 20:21:42 snail gsd-housekeepin[3178]: Failed to enumerate children of /var/tmp/chmaa-backup/usr/include/c++/5/bits/stl_iterator.h: Error opening directory '/var/tmp/chmaa-backup/usr/include/c++/5/bits/stl_iterator.h': Too many open files Jan 26 20:21:42 snail gsd-housekeepin[3178]: Failed to enumerate children of /var/tmp/chmaa-backup/usr/include/c++/5/bits/move.h: Error opening directory '/var/tmp/chmaa-backup/usr/include/c++/5/bits/move.h': Too many open files $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 17.10 Release: 17.10 $ apt policy gnome-settings-daemon gnome-settings-daemon: Installed: 3.26.2-0ubuntu0.1 Candidate: 3.26.2-0ubuntu0.1 Version table: *** 3.26.2-0ubuntu0.1 500 500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.26.1-0ubuntu5 500 500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1745666/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
