From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: I have been getting the following message, telling me to file a bug report here. Message is as follows: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/neat", 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 The error message comes up and when I choose to close the message my network and dialup connection crash Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info:
I have a RH8 'everything' install up2date as of 7/2003 on two platforms, a fairly new P4 hardware, and an old P2. I can duplicate this problem on both systems. I was reviewing my network settings using the network configuration dialog under Gnome: <system tools><network device control><configure><help> When the help dialog popped up I choose the first link "Establishing an Ethernet Connection", which never comes up. (These help docs are on the CD but may not have been installed on the system. I didn't remove them). Eventually I get an exception with the "Too many files open" msg above, and have to close the doc window. A process called gnome2-info2html is started which hogs all of the cpu and prevents saving of the crash report. The traceback report is as shown above.
it's a bug in rhpl, which was fixed in RHL 9. The errata is still in the QA queue. I hope it will be pushed out soon.