Banshee crashes whilst scanning library on remote server

[riban]

I have Banshee configured to store its library on a remote SMB share which already contains my music collection. When I ask Banshee to rescan library, it starts, scans a couple of albums then crashes. Starting Banshee from the command line shows an error on crash thus:

  (Banshee:9020): GLib-ERROR **: Creating pipes for GWakeup: Too many open files

  Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

I am using Banshee 2.6.2 on Ubuntu Studio 15.04 on Dell Latitude E6510 (64-bit).
The SMB share is on an Intel Atom host running Ubuntu Server 14.04.

I have attached the crash dump file.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

Sounds like something's leaking file descriptors. Could you run "lsof -p <banshee pid> -n" a couple of times while it is scanning, but before it crashes?

[Fixerdave (fixerdave)]

Same problem... took a bit to discover Banshee shows up as "Main Thread" in the ps list.

Anyway, lsof log attached. Basically ran the command a few times, once before and then as many times as I could before it crashed out. Later runs have lots of repeated:
Main\x20T 6052 fixerdave 290u a_inode 0,11 0 8006 [eventfd]

[Fixerdave (fixerdave)]

Note there is another related Bug #1533480.
Does not seem to be SMB specific.

People are having some success with turning off various plugins and/or letting the media update plugin work without doing a manual import. Neither resolves for me. May be related to media library size. I'm only getting about 13GB of 80GB imported. Each run imports a little bit more before crashing.

This is with Ubuntu 16.4 gnome, x64, and I ended up with some KDE backend.

[themmm (themmm)]

For me the following "fixed" the Bug:

I mounted the SMB shares via fstab to something like

/home/media/user/mountpoint

Before this the link to the smb share was something like

"'/run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=name_of_server,share=Name_of_smb_share/folder'".

Now the library scan works flawless.

Greetings
themmm

[Fixerdave (fixerdave)]

"I mounted the SMB shares via fstab..."

Confirmed... fixed it for me too. 69GB imported without issue.

Thanks for that,

David...