unable to save, too many open files

[Nicholas J Kreucher]

Binary package hint: gedit

I am using gedit 2.20.3 in Gutsy.

After leaving gedit open for several days, and opening/closing dozens of files, gedit will refuse to save anything with:

 Could not save the file [ ... ]
 There are too many open files. Please close some applications and try again.

lsof will report gedit has over 1200+ files open, mostly with deleted tmp files:
...
gedit 8306 kreucher 1012u REG 8,1 332 2624913 /tmp/tmpB_Astq (deleted)
gedit 8306 kreucher 1013u REG 8,1 332 2624914 /tmp/tmp98jM6j (deleted)
gedit 8306 kreucher 1014u REG 8,1 332 2624915 /tmp/tmpBhrE7e (deleted)
gedit 8306 kreucher 1015u REG 8,1 332 2624917 /tmp/tmpEPJ-VT (deleted)
gedit 8306 kreucher 1016u REG 8,1 332 2624918 /tmp/tmpQfoPj1 (deleted)
gedit 8306 kreucher 1017u REG 8,1 332 2624919 /tmp/tmpUSa2ts (deleted)
gedit 8306 kreucher 1018u REG 8,1 332 2624920 /tmp/tmpNUyES6 (deleted)
...

Doesn't matter how many files I currently *really* have open. Just now it happened with only 2 file tabs opened.

Plugins Configured:
Auto Tab, Bracket Compleation, Browser Preview, Change Case, Class Browser, Code comment, Color Picker, Document Statistics, External Tools, File Browser Pane, Indent Lines, Join/Split Lines, Modelines, Session Saver, Snap open, Snippets, Sort, Spell Checker, Text Encryption

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, known upstream you can track it here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=396828

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Comment from upstream:

"This was discussed also on the mailing list... it's indeed a bug in class
browser plugin"

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

closing since that's not a gedit bug