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John A Meinel (jameinel) wrote : Re: [Bug 584530] [NEW] Bazaar crashes with 'Too many open files' error when removing a directory with many children

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Jamu Kakar wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> I have a project with a top-level src/ directory. All the code in
> the project is in a package called 'canonical'. We have a mix of
> 4414 files and folders in src/canonical. I want to make 'canonical'
> a top-level directory and get rid of 'src'. I did the following the
> from the top-level directory:
>
> bzr mv src/canonical canonical
> bzr rm src
>
> When running the rm command I ran into the following issue:

I think this is a side effect of bug #582656. I'll mark it as such.

In the short term, you could 'rm _readdir_pyx.so', or apply the one line
patch and rebuild.

The next release of 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 will all have this fixed.

John
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