Ubuntu
compiz package

  1. Bug #1518411
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 1518411

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shemgp (shemgp) wrote : Re: "Maximum number of clients reached", new in Ubuntu 15.10

Experienced this with Ubuntu 16.04 after using my work desktop station as a temporary server with vagrant servers and using gnome-shell as my DE for about a month. Nautilus started to crash with the error:

cannot open display: :0.0
Maximum number of clients reached

Restarting gdm3 didn't work either. Killed all users, and run startx as root launched the gnome-shell and nautilus worked, but I could not make gdm3 start as gdm3 user again.