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Date:      Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:59:32 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: console-kit-daemon leaking file descriptors?
Message-ID:  <1240109972.1354.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090418233629.GA89603@osiris.chen.org.nz>
References:  <20090418105855.GA61453@osiris.chen.org.nz> <1240080177.18976.63.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20090418204411.GA73963@osiris.chen.org.nz> <1240092470.18976.80.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20090418233629.GA89603@osiris.chen.org.nz>

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On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 11:36 +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 06:07:50PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 08:44 +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 02:42:57PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 22:58 +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >=20
> > > > > I'm running consolekit-0.3.0_6, and I'm seeing a file descriptor =
leak
> > > > > on /dev/null. A "fstat -p pid" on console-kit-daemon on my
> > > > > machine reveals that inode 7 (ie: /dev/null) has been opened with=
 "r"
> > > > > 1000+ times after a week or so of uptime.
> > > > >=20
> > > > > Is anyone else seeing this?
> > > >=20
> > > > No.  After a day and half of uptime, I have stdin, stdout, and stde=
rr
> > > > open to /dev/null, plus one additional /dev/null on FD 4.  If there=
 was
> > > > a linear leak, I should have /dev/null open over 100 times by now. =
 Can
> > > > you reliably reproduce this leak on your system?
> > >=20
> > > I've killed console-kit-daemon, and when it automatically restarts af=
ter
> > > a gdm login, I see the output below. 36 read-opens on /dev/null so
> > > far - which looks pretty suspicious. I'm running 7.1-STABLE FreeBSD
> > > as of "Apr 3 08:10:13 NZDT 2009".
> >=20
> > Does this patch fix the problem?
> >=20
> > http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/patch-src_ck-sysdeps-freebsd.c
>=20
> Yes! Thanks heaps!

Then that means you have a deeper problem.  Most likely you do not have
procfs mounted on /proc.  The console or /var/log/messages should have
warnings.

Joe

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