[tech] Re: [wheel] Musel is wierd 'n stuff

[Grahame Bowland]

On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 11:04:02AM +0800, Duncan Sargeant wrote:
> Andrew Bailey wrote on Mon May 29, at 10:32 +0800:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > mussel is not letting me log in 
> > 
> > From CS I get 
> > 
> > Could not run /usr/bin/X11/xauth -q -
> > /bin/bash: Too many open files in system
> > Connection to mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au closed.
> 
> I managed to be able to log in, fortuitously, and su'ed to root. 
> Hmmmm, file-max was 4096, upped to 8128 and added a thefted boot
> script to this effect.
> 
> Installed lsof, and found that gdm was responsible for more than 2000
> open files.  Killed 'em all ruthlessly and we went from 6500 open
> files down to 2300 in the blink of an eye.  I killed a few dead
> xsessions, methinks.  ooops.  oh well.

I've nuked gdm from orbit and put XDM back. gdm was vulnerable to a 
root exploit anyway when serving xterminals over xdmcp (or whatever :)

I'll post a bug report sometime saying that it sucks and leaves files 
open :)

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Grahame Bowland                    gbowland at tartarus.uwa.edu.au
                                     http://gbowland.ucc.asn.au