An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information : Too many open files

[Nikola Yanev]

Binary package hint: update-manager

it's happening since the last RC of jaunty and now with karmic the problem present too

[Kees Cook (kees)]

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[Nikola Yanev (gericom)]

1) The release of Ubuntu:
   DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
   DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
   DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
   DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu karmic (development branch)"

2) The version of the package: update-manager-1:0.120

3) What happened and what you expected to happen: The error is printed after command in terminal: update-manager -d or update-manager -c and there's no error returned in terminal.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

From the error your system is out of file handles. Go to /proc/sys/kernel and look at "file-max" as compared to "file-nr" as well as "inode-max" compared to "inode-nr" and adjust it to your usage.

I'm closing this report because it is not a bug with update-manager.