I know this bug hasn't been posted to in over a month, but I think I have this problem going on with pidgin 2.5.2 and Ubuntu Intrepid 32-bit. I've been running pidgin with the debug flag and this is the last line that came up before it just randomly disappeared:
Beginning at 01:35:29, errors such as these began to fill the log: (01:35:29) util: Error opening file /home/bass/.purple/blist.xml.save for writing: Too many open files ... (01:57:11) nautilus: couldn't save '/home/bass/.gnome2/nautilus-sendto/pidgin_buddies_online': Failed to create file '/home/bass/.gnome2/nautilus-sendto/pidgin_buddies_online.HZPHNU': Too many open files The log also filled with errors such as this at 3 second intervals:: (01:32:25) nautilus: Can't open the spool dir .... (01:57:09) nautilus: Can't open the spool dir There are no occurrences of these errors before the given times. After reading the above posts, I investigated the proc folder for pidgins pid and watched the list of open files. It seems that when sending and receiving messages, the number of open files just goes up, and never back down again. I disabled sounds, and repeated the testing... and the number of open files while sending and receiving messages remained constant. Just to be sure, I re-enabled the sound, and the number of files again begins to climb. Now for the interesting part... I tried other Sound options in the settings. First I tried ESD, which did not play any sounds and caused the open files to stop accumulating much as it did with disabled sound. Then I tried ALSA... sound worked as normal, and the number of open files did not climb. Back on Automatic... again the open files begin to increase again. Setting the sound mode to ALSA may be a temporary work around for this problem, but there is definitely something wrong going on here that needs attention. I will continue running Pidgin with debug flag and with ALSA set for my sound to see if I get anymore crashes. I suggest some other people do the same and see if it helps. -- Pidgin randomly crashes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/298820 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
