gvfsd-httpd leaking file handles

[Joe Mason]

Binary package hint: gvfs

I'm having a problem with an app unable to connect to dbus with the error: "Error while getting peer-to-peer dbus connection: Failed to create new socket: Failed to open socket: Too many open files" (specifically, it's rhythmbox trying to download podcasts)

The only app on my system that's using an unreasonable number of filehandles is gvfsd-https, which is right at the max:

$ ls /proc/`pidof gvfsd-http`/fd|wc -l
1024

It's not using a lot of memory, just file handles.

I'm not to clear on the architecture and how gvfsd relates to dbus, but it's happening when I try to download over http so it seems like gvfsd is at fault.

I'm running intrepid, using gvfs version 1.0.2-0ubuntu3.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: LinuxMint 6
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: gvfs 1.0.2-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gvfs
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine LinuxMint package

[Joe Mason (joe-notcharles)]

I think this is upstream bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563418

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

would be worth testing in jaunty

[Joe Mason (joe-notcharles)]

Confirmed that the patches attached to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563418 fix the problem in intrepid