Public bug reported: Binary package hint: libbonobo2-0
Background: talking to the developer of mail-notify about a possible bug on that application, he pointed out that the bug might rather come from bonobo and added a link to a possible patch. I leave the investigation to someone more knowledgeable than me, but for the moment, I thought I should at least submit a bug report. Here's my question to him: <quote> > There is only a small problem, though. When you leave mail-notify running > and Evolution itself is not running, after a while it happens that > bonobo-based applications cannot be started anymore. That happens with > nautilus and epiphany, for example. Either killing the mail-notify running > process or deinstalling the software completely, seems to solve the problem. > The error shown is the following (when trying to start nautilus in this > case): </quote> And here's what he replied: <quote> This is very likely caused by a file descriptor leak bug in bonobo-activation (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315650). When Evolution is not running, Mail Notification is trying to contact it every second. Because of the bonobo-activation bug, each contact attempt causes the bonobo-activation-server process to leak out one file descriptor. Eventually bonobo-activation-server exhausts all the available file descriptors and bad things start to happen. What I suggest: contact the libbonobo package maintainer for your distribution and ask him to add the patch available in the bugzilla entry I've mentioned above. </quote> Thanks. ** Affects: libbonobo (upstream) Importance: Unknown Status: Unconfirmed ** Affects: libbonobo (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs Status: Rejected -- Possible file descriptor leak in bonobo https://launchpad.net/bugs/44078 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
