From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: redhat-config-network crashes if left running for a while (say 1/2 to 1 hour). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Configure a network connection using redhat-config-network (i've tried both wired and wireless via pcmcia) 2. Activate the network connection using redhat-config-network and keep it running. (i've done reboots between setting & activationg - just to be sure) 3.run the following command in a different window (xterm) while true; do lsof |grep redhat-co | wc -l ; sleep 5; done All of the above is done as 'root' Actual Results: 0 26 96 99 99 105 107 111 113 ...... ...... 573 585 589 ...... ...... 1097 1103 1109 1117 1117 Until the redhat-config-network crashes with the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/redhat-config-network", line 774, in update_devicelist File "/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/Control.py", line 63, in __init__ File "/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/Control.py", line 66, in load OSError: Too many open files Expected Results: No crash. Additional info: The files it keeps opening are: redhat-co 967 root 548u sock 0,0 774784 can't identify protocol redhat-co 967 root 549u sock 0,0 774785 can't identify protocol redhat-co 967 root 550u sock 0,0 780554 can't identify protocol redhat-co 967 root 551u sock 0,0 780555 can't identify protocol redhat-co 967 root 552u sock 0,0 780559 can't identify protocol
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74989 ***