Description of problem: After letting "Network configuration" window open for some time, python tracebak appears saying that "Too many open files". How reproducible: Always, tested on 2 boxes with different configuration. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Network configuration 2. Wait for some time 3. Traceback window appears saying: Traceback (most recent calls last) File "/usr/sbin/neat", line 774, in update_devicelist File "/usr/sbin/../redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/Config.py", line 64, in __init__ File "/usr/sbin/../redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/Config.py", line 64, in load OSError: Too many open files Even the traceback is not possible to save, the only solution is to kill the python process. lsof shows 1024 lines of: neat 1260 root 1019u sock 0,0 81880 can't identify protocol neat 1260 root 1020u sock 0,0 81881 can't identify protocol neat 1260 root 1021u sock 0,0 82380 can't identify protocol neat 1260 root 1022u sock 0,0 82381 can't identify protocol neat 1260 root 1023u sock 0,0 82392 can't identify protocol Process 1260 is: root 1260 0.0 2.8 22664 14724 ? S 11:09 0:01 /usr/bin/python2.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74989 ***