mintinstall open files several times
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux Mint |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
LinuxMint KDE ver. 14, mintinstall ver. 7.4.4
I've noticed that using mintinstall for a "long time" (e.g. installing many applications), some of applications queued to install were not completed, and all of remaining packages appear as "Waiting" without any progress change.
Having a look on console (calling mintinstall by command-line) it shows a "Too many open files" message; checking the process' fd directory (/proc/XXX/fd) I've seen something like this - I took one file as an example):
fd # ls -l | grep /var/lib/
lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Dec 24 12:33 158 -> /var/lib/
lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Dec 24 12:33 205 -> /var/lib/
lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Dec 24 12:33 256 -> /var/lib/
lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Dec 24 12:33 303 -> /var/lib/
lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Dec 24 12:33 352 -> /var/lib/
lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Dec 24 12:33 403 -> /var/lib/
lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Dec 24 12:33 454 -> /var/lib/
lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Dec 24 12:33 499 -> /var/lib/
lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Dec 24 12:33 50 -> /var/lib/
lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Dec 24 12:33 548 -> /var/lib/
lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Dec 24 12:33 597 -> /var/lib/
lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Dec 24 12:33 99 -> /var/lib/
it seems that mintinstall don't close files used - there are some of them marked as deleted like the one shown below, and since packages install work properly I've see number of same files increases.
lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Dec 24 12:33 55 -> /var/lib/
