Bug 476744

Summary:	Firefox 3.0.4 keeps opening files until the system runs out of file descriptors
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Matthias Scheutz <matthias.scheutz>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	10	CC:	fedora.jrg01, gecko-bugs-nobody, mcepl, walters
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Description Matthias Scheutz 2008-12-16 21:19:13 UTC

Description of problem:
Firefox 3.0.4 keeps opening files until the system runs out of file descriptors; this does not happen always, but sometimes after firefox starts spawning various new browser windows

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Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2008-12-22 22:36:57 UTC

Sorry, but this is severely incomplete bug report -- I have no idea how to reproduce here on our systems and I certainly don't see anything like this here.

Is there anything interesting about your setup? Some kind of special configuration of your network, system, something? Are you able to reproduce the behavior with the binary from upstream (http://www.mozilla.com)? Are you able to reproduce it in the Safe Mode (run firefox -safe-mode to get there)?

We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information.

Thanks in advance.

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2009-02-08 17:17:47 UTC

Reporter, could you please reply to the previous question? If you won't reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.

Comment 3 Matěj Cepl 2009-02-08 23:44:34 UTC

In personal email:

> Please close it, I had it happen a few times, but could not consistently
> reproduce it either, and once I turned off the visual effects in KDE 4
> it did not happen again, so my hunch is that it was related to that.

OK, closing per your request. But if you would be interested in reporting that X bug (because it looks like one), then please reopen this bug and attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, if available) and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below.

If you do so, we will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information.