Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-terminal
gnome-terminal is unable to start any more tabs or windows. If I try I
get a red error saying:
“There was an error creating the child process for this terminal
Failed to create pipe for communicating with child process (Too many
open files)”
(It also offers buttons for “Profile Preferences” and “Relaunch”)
Sure enough, a peek in /proc/PID/fd for gnome-terminal shows 1023 open
files. About half are /dev/ptmx, about half are /dev/pts/*. That's
approximately 500 more psuedoterminals than I'm actually using (I only
have 3 open tabs gnome-terminal currently).
I do open and close terminal tabs and windows fairly frequently, so it's
conceivable that in the last 12 days of uptime I've used > 500
terminals, but obviously that wouldn't be a problem gnome-terminal was
releasing the fds when I close the corresponding tabs/windows.
I'm attaching the output of "ls -l /proc/2264/fd" to this bug report.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-terminal 2.32.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 15 10:29:07 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_AU.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
** Affects: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 maverick
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Failed to create pipe for communicating with child process (Too many open files)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/675342
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