[Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

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On 2006-07-14T20:11:04+00:00 Ray wrote:

Earlier today I did a yum upgrade to the latest rawhide.  evolution was running
at the time.  Some hours later (after the upgrade finished) I closed evolution
and it crashed on exit.

Now sometimes when I start it I get this error:

[rstrode@halflap] (~) <01:05 PM>
$ evolution
CalDAV Eplugin starting up ...
evolution-shell-Message: Killing old version of evolution-data-server...

(evolution-2.8:4577): camel-WARNING **: camel_exception_get_id called with NULL
parameter.

(evolution-2.8:4577): Pango-WARNING **: shape engine failure, expect ugly
output. the offending font is 'Bitstream Vera Sans Bold 9'

(evolution-2.8:4577): Pango-WARNING **: pango_font_get_glyph_extents called with
bad font, expect ugly output
I/O error : Too many open files
I/O warning : failed to load external entity
"/usr/share/evolution/2.8/ui/evolution-mail-global.xml"

(evolution-2.8:4577): Bonobo-CRITICAL **: bonobo_ui_node_to_string: assertion
`node != NULL' failed
I/O error : Too many open files
I/O warning : failed to load external entity
"/usr/share/evolution/2.8/ui/evolution-mail-list.xml"

(evolution-2.8:4577): Bonobo-CRITICAL **: bonobo_ui_node_to_string: assertion
`node != NULL' failed
I/O error : Too many open files
I/O warning : failed to load external entity
"/usr/share/evolution/2.8/ui/evolution-mail-message.xml"

(evolution-2.8:4577): Bonobo-CRITICAL **: bonobo_ui_node_to_string: assertion
`node != NULL' failed
I/O error : Too many open files
I/O warning : failed to load external entity
"/usr/lib/evolution/2.8/plugins/org-gnome-mailing-list-actions.xml"

(evolution-2.8:4577): Bonobo-CRITICAL **: bonobo_ui_node_to_string: assertion
`node != NULL' failed
I/O error : Too many open files
I/O warning : failed to load external entity
"/usr/lib/evolution/2.8/plugins/org-gnome-mail-to-task.xml"

(evolution-2.8:4577): Bonobo-CRITICAL **: bonobo_ui_node_to_string: assertion
`node != NULL' failed

(evolution-2.8:4577): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous
GError or uninitialized memory.
This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL before
it's set.
The overwriting error message was: Error opening directory
'/local-users/rstrode/.evolution/mail/imap/rstr...@mail.boston.redhat.com/folders/INBOX':
Too many open files

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On 2006-07-14T20:20:26+00:00 Ray wrote:

Created attachment 132460
strace of the crash

Note if i try enough times evolution eventually starts up, although sometimes
it looks rather broken, like no icons showing up (just big red X's)

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On 2006-07-26T20:20:25+00:00 Ray wrote:

So Alex and I had a look at this today.  We think the problem is I just have too
many vfolders. Each vfolder spawns several asynchronomous operations, each
creating a pipe (and 2 file descriptors per pipe).  I have over a hundred
vfolders, so i hit the default hard limit (of 10240) pretty fast.

I think i'm a bit of a minority having that many vfolders, so I don't think this
is a widespread problem.

We should probably get this filed upstream and work on it there.

Removing from FC6 Desktop tracker.

Here's an example stack trace showing one of the hundreds of pipes it
creates:

#0  0x05f3d060 in pipe () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x0410b6ab in PR_CreatePipe () from /usr/lib/libnspr4.so
#2  0x0027f9c3 in e_msgport_new () at e-msgport.c:521
#3  0x009b8e24 in camel_operation_new (status=0x36ead30 ,
status_data=0x23) at camel-operation.c:136
#4  0x036ea5fb in mail_msg_new () from
/usr/lib/evolution/2.8/components/libevolution-mail.so
#5  0x036eb760 in mail_async_event_emit () from
/usr/lib/evolution/2.8/components/libevolution-mail.so
#6  0x036b158a in em_folder_tree_model_get_expanded () from
/usr/lib/evolution/2.8/components/libevolution-mail.so
#7  0x009b6aeb in camel_object_trigger_event (vo=0x8331b40, name=0x20eb74
"folder_created", event_data=0x83a07c8) at camel-object.c:1504
#8  0x002072c7 in change_folder (store=0x8331b40, name=0x837add0 "Fedora/Desktop
List", flags=, count=0) at camel-vee-store.c:169
#9  0x002077c2 in vee_get_folder (store=0x8331b40, folder_name=0x8354908
"Fedora/Desktop List", flags=0, ex=0x0) at camel-vee-store.c:202
#10 0x001fe09f in camel_store_get_folder (store=0x8331b40, 

[Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

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[Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

[Perbiu]

Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon, April 1 2008 Software up to date.
Pentium 4 2.5ghz, 512mb ram.

Problem: A message of Too many open files appears in Nautilus (seen in
the attach image). Then after that any icon you select in Nautilus
becomes an uknown file and icon changes. And if you try to copy or paste
or open any music files the message will appear again, Unable to copy,
Too many open files

When does it happen: After using Nautilus (30mins-1hour) of repeatedly
copy  paste of copying a music files one by one to a different
location or folder. Im organizing my music files and picture files. Then
it happens, though everything is still usable except Nautilus copy 
paste or by opening the file. I dont know if its a Nautilus problem or
the clipboard. It is not knew, i've experience this since Feisty.

Solution: It can be fixed by logging out-logging in, but the problem
will come back after a while.

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[Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

[Perbiu]

Heres another screenshot when unmounting a pen USB drive after the error
occurs.

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[Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

[Max-Ulrich Farber]

After deleting and/or copying several files from one partition (FAT-32)
to an other partition or directory, I get this message : copying
impossible, too many files open, even if there are no other files open.
Later on Gnome refuses all other File-operations and does no more
recognize the kind of the files. It seems to me  that Gnome does not
correctly close files after copying or deleting.

After restarting Gnome with CtrlAltBackspace, Gnome works fine
again till the same problem occurs again. I can not find out if this is
a special FAT-32 problem.

UBUNTU 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon, Gnome 2.20.0

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[Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

[Sebastien Bacher]

feisty has a new version, marking fixed

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Re: [Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

[Lorenco Trichardt]

Tested and working thanks!

On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 17:27 +, Sebastien Bacher wrote:

 feisty has a new version, marking fixed
 
 ** Changed in: evolution-data-server (Ubuntu)
Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released
 

Groetnis ... 
Lorenco Trichardt
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[Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

[Daniel Holbach]

Fixed Upstream.

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[Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

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[Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

[Dirk]

I too am getting this problem. I am using latest Edgy for evolution and
uw-imap with an imap connection mainly. However, I have other
connections, some active, some not, to various other makes of imap
server (including exchange).

I have probably got a 100 or so folders altogether. Every couple of days
I get a too many open files message from evolution (not the data
server). But, during those two days, the opening of messages gets
progressively slower and slower. From a subjective point of view, it
seems to have got worse from Dapper-Edgy, to the extent that I am now
actively looking for an alternative MTA. As soon as I can export my
calendar and contacts I shall be changing (even though I don't really
like the alternatives as much and it will cause no end of aggravation
doing the change).

For what it is worth, I enclose an lsof dump. As you can see, the
problem appears to be the accretion of 'pipes' over time. It may be
something to do with the opening of (pdf) attachments. As an aside, why
are we (still) using pipes for network based programs in 2006?

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[Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

[Lorenco Trichardt]

I recently upgraded to Edgy and are hiving these quite regularly
I have multiple accounts setup (3) syncing between an IMAP server using 
offlineimap.  

I noticed a directory called: .#evolution and in starting / stopping a
couple of times I get the following msg in a dialog.:

Error while Storing folder 'Inbox'.

Cannot create folder lock on /home/lorenco/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox:
Too many open files

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[Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

[Sebastien Bacher]

** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #198935
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** Also affects: evolution-data-server (Fedora) via
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198935
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   Status: Unknown

** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #34
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** Also affects: evolution-data-server (upstream) via
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   Importance: Unknown
   Status: Unknown

** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: evolution = evolution-data-server
   Status: Needs Info = Confirmed

** Bug watch removed: GNOME Bug Tracker #34
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[Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

[Sebastien Bacher]

do you still have that issue? evolution-data-server 1.8.1 fixes some fd
leak and might fix that bug too

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Re: [Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

[Laurent Bonnaud]

On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 12:14 +, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
 do you still have that issue? evolution-data-server 1.8.1 fixes some
 fd leak and might fix that bug too

No.  However, due to other issues, my system does not stay up for very
long and therefore evolution is restarted very often.

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[Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

[Björn Torkelsson]

Yes I still get Too many open files with the latest version in Edgy
:-(

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[Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

[Sebastien Bacher]

** Bug 64732 has been marked a duplicate of this bug

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[Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

[Björn Torkelsson]

It's a bit hard to increase the max open files limit as an ordinary user
when the default hard limit is 1024.

ulimit/limit is builtin in the shell, so you have to check the man page
of the shell.

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[Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

[Barry Clearwater]

'ulimit -n' says 1024

To change max open files to 10240 you type:
ulimit -n 10240

ulimit does not have a man page

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[Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

[Sebastien Bacher]

do you use any fd limitation you set on your machine?

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[Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

[Björn Torkelsson]

I have the same problem with 2.8.0-0ubuntu2.

The only interesting thing I could find when running with
CAMEL_DEBUG=all was:


CamelStore('imap://[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]:994/;command=ssh%20-C%20-l%20%25u%20%25h%20exec%20/usr/sbin/imapd;sync_offline;use_ssl=always;check_all;offli
ne_sync;filter;filter_junk'):get_folder('security/dce', 0) = (nil)
  failed: 'Could not open cache directory: Error opening directory 
'/home/torkel/.evolution/mail/imap/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:994/folders/security/subfo
lders/dce': Too many open files'
 b1b2dba0 
CamelException.setv(0x85b05f8, 2, 'Could not open cache directory: Error 
opening directory '/home/torkel/.evolution/mail/imap/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:99
4/folders/security/subfolders/heimdal': Too many open files')
Thread b1b2dba0 
CamelStore('imap://[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]:994/;command=ssh%20-C%20-l%20%25u%20%25h%20exec%20/usr/sbin/imapd;sync_offline;use_ssl=always;check_all;offli
ne_sync;filter;filter_junk'):get_folder('security/heimdal', 0) = (nil)
  failed: 'Could not open cache directory: Error opening directory 
'/home/torkel/.evolution/mail/imap/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:994/folders/security/subfo
lders/heimdal': Too many open files'
 b1b2dba0 
...

As a side note, sometime I also get the following dialog when starting
evo: Internal error, unknown error 'mail:async-error' requested

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[Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

[Daniel Holbach]

Any luck with the debug log?

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[Bug 43900] Re: [Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

[Rusty Russell]

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 13:07 +, Daniel Holbach wrote:
 Any luck with the debug log?

No, sorry, it hasn't happened since I moved away all my mail and
reimported a small subset of it.

I still get out of sync messages every few weeks and have to do the
disable accounts/shutdown/remove .ev-summary files/enable accounts dance
though.

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[Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

[Dirk]

It happens to me as well, although it can take a few days. I am using an
imap server (uw-imap). I will try running it with CAMEL_DEBUG and see
what happens.

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[Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

[Sebastien Bacher]

The issue is fixed for you know? Do you still have a configuration and
the directory giving the issue to work on it or should the bug be
closed?

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[Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

[Daniel Holbach]

Thanks for your bug report - I never saw that message. Which version of Ubuntu 
and evolution do you use? If this is reproducible, can you try to get a log 
with 
  CAMEL_DEBUG=all evolution  evo.log
please?

** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu)
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[Bug 43900] Re: [Bug 43900] Re: Too many open files

[Rusty Russell]

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 08:40 +, Daniel Holbach wrote:
 Thanks for your bug report - I never saw that message. Which version of 
 Ubuntu and evolution do you use? If this is reproducible, can you try to get 
 a log with 
   CAMEL_DEBUG=all evolution  evo.log
 please?
 
 ** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu)
  Assignee: (unassigned) = Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Status: Unconfirmed = Needs Info

Sorry, after two days of running out of file descriptors and random
crashes, I couldn't go without mail any more.

I saved off .evolution/mail, blew it away, started again, and imported
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