Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 205616
bonobo-activation-server hang
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:42 EST
Description of problem: Sometimes (especially in combination with the mail-notification applet from fedora extras), I cannot open any new windows on the gnome desktop. "top" shows bonobo-activation-server using 100% cpu. Further investigation shows that bonobo-activation-server ran out of file descriptors. If spawning fails, it does not clean up open file descriptors. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libbonobo-2.14.0-1.i386.rpm How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install mail-notification 3.0 and configure it to watch your evolution inbox. 2. Close evolution. 3. Watch /proc/<pid of bonobo-activation-server>/fd/ fill up. Actual results: bonobo-activation-server runs out of file descriptors Expected results: No leak. Additional info: Fix is in the following comment. This might be the cause for bug 189475, too.
Created attachment 135785 [details] Fix file descriptor leak FreeBSD has a patch addressing memory/file descriptor leaks: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/ports/devel/libbonobo/files/patch-bonobo-activation_bonobo-activation-fork-server.c Taking their patch directly did not work for me, though. It also addresses memory leaks and these parts lead to a double free error. I isolated the file descriptor leak part of this patch, it is in the attachment.
Created attachment 135786 [details] Updated libbonobo spec file.
Apparently this has been fixed in the updates today, libbonobo-2.14.0-1.fc5.1.rpm works. Marking as resolved.