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Bug 80548

Summary: redhat-config-network crashes if too many aliases on a device
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Tassos Magoutas <tasos>
Component: rhplAssignee: Harald Hoyer <harald>
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Description Tassos Magoutas 2002-12-27 20:39:31 UTC
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Description of problem:
redhat-config-network crashes if too many aliases on a device.
The following message appears:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/neat", line 774, in update_devicelist
  File "/usr/bin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/Control.py", line 63,
in __init__
  File "/usr/bin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/Control.py", line 66,
in load
OSError: Too many open files

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a lot of aliases for a network device (e.g. 130)
2. Open redhat-config-network
3. After a while (3-5 secs) the program crashes
    

Actual Results:  The program crashed

Additional info:

Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2003-01-09 14:16:02 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74989 ***

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:50:40 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.