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[Bug 675342] Re: Failed to create pipe for communicating with child process (Too many open files)

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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:41:13 -0000
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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 663364 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663364

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Failed to create pipe for communicating with child process (Too many
  open files)

Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  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

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