mutt-patched always errors out with "too many open files"

[Amit Kucheria]

Binary package hint: mutt

$ ps aux | grep mutt
amit 14573 0.0 0.0 24544 1172 pts/0 S+ 16:19 0:00 screen mutt
amit 14574 0.0 0.0 26784 3532 ? Ss 16:19 0:00 SCREEN mutt
amit 14575 0.0 1.4 115140 53100 pts/3 Ss+ 16:19 0:07 mutt

$ ls -1 /proc/14575/fd/ | wc -l
1024

After running mutt-patched for a while, I have to close it and restart since it seems to keep everything open for some reason. Revering to plain mutt gets rid of the problem

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: mutt-patched 1.5.21-2ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 1 21:02:20 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110201.2)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LC_PAPER=a4
SourcePackage: mutt
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Antonio Radici (antonio-dyne)]

this has been fixed in Debian mutt 1.5.21-4

[Nicolas Valcarcel (nvalcarcel)]

Merge uploaded to my ppa: https://launchpad.net/~nvalcarcel/+archive/ppa

[Sven Hergenhahn (svenxy)]

This bug also exists in mutt-patched as the OP states. Would it be possible to add a fixed version to one of the ppa's, too?

Tjhanks,
Sven

[Amit Kucheria (amitk)]

Sven, the bug is in mutt-patched only, not mutt. But there doesn't seem to be a way to file it against mutt-patched. Could you confirm the bug state above? It basically requires syncing with debian.

[Sven Hergenhahn (svenxy)]

Amit - I checked the Debian packages and also the ones for oeneric, but both have a dependency to some higher version of lib*tls (can't remeber) that is not met in natty.

mutt and mutt-patched are built from the same mutt source package, maybe that's the reason why it cannot be reported singularly.

Anyway, I just wanted to report that a downgrade to the maverick packages seems to work fine for me so far:

sudo apt-cache policy mutt-patched
mutt-patched:
  Installiert: 1.5.20-9ubuntu2
  Kandidat: 1.5.20-9ubuntu2
  Paket-Pinning: 1.5.20-9ubuntu2
  Versionstabelle:
     1.5.21-2ubuntu3 1000
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/universe i386 Packages
 *** 1.5.20-9ubuntu2 1000
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I'd appreciate this being fixed though.

[Sven Hergenhahn (svenxy)]

I can confirm that the i386 package from Nicolas' ppa works

Thanks,
Sven