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Bug 85492

Summary: neat throws "too many open files" OSError
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Pascal Haakmat <groomed>
Component: redhat-config-networkAssignee: Harald Hoyer <harald>
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Description Pascal Haakmat 2003-03-03 18:48:29 UTC
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Description of problem:
After the neat control panel has been open for some amount of time, it
eventually crashes with the following traceback:

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

/sbin/lsof shows many lines like:
neat      1268   root  959u  sock        0,0            21990 can't identify
protocol



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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open neat
2. Activate dialup account (not sure if necessary)
3. Crash occurs
    

Additional info:

Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2003-03-10 14:07:19 UTC

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

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:52:04 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.