[Touch-packages] [Bug 1771329] Re: Can't open apps due to Too many open files

2018-10-15 Thread Joe Littlejohn
Not sure which part of this fixes the problem, but I don't have any issues after I run the following: echo '* hard nofile 2097152' | sudo tee -a /etc/security/limits.conf echo '* soft nofile 2097152' | sudo tee -a /etc/security/limits.conf echo 'root hard nofile 2097152' | sudo tee -a

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1771329] Re: Can't open apps due to Too many open files

2018-05-16 Thread Joe Littlejohn
I tried the following: echo '* hard nofile 65535' | sudo tee -a /etc/security/limits.conf echo '* soft nofile 65535' | sudo tee -a /etc/security/limits.conf echo 'session required pam_limits.so' | sudo tee -a /etc/pam.d/common-session then restarted. This did not fix the issue. So that's one

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1771329] Re: Can't open apps due to Too many open files

2018-05-16 Thread Joe Littlejohn
I think there's a strong argument that the default max open files for Ubuntu Desktop should be higher than it is now. Modern apps use a lot of file handles. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to dbus in Ubuntu.

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1771329] Re: Can't open apps due to Too many open files

2018-05-16 Thread Joe Littlejohn
Thanks @dino99. I've seen a lot of different suggestions for tackling this error, so it would be good to understand exactly which config change is the critical one. I think this is a major bug on a newly installed system. As an Ubuntu Desktop user I shouldn't be experiencing an issue where the OS

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1771329] [NEW] Can't open apps due to Too many open files

2018-05-15 Thread Joe Littlejohn
Public bug reported: Occasionally I find that I can't launch a new terminal, or can't achieve some other desktop task. Checking journalctl I see error messages like this: May 15 12:12:15 jl-XPS-13-9360 terminator.desktop[11840]: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: