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FS#5443 - evolution crashed with "Too many open files" error

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by robin wood (dninja) - Monday, 25 September 2006, 10:51 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 22 April 2007, 21:48 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I tried to do a save all on 4 large image attachments and evolution locked up. I'd ran it from the command line but didn't get any errors or messages to indicate why. I killed the app with ctrl-c and re-ran it, on start up I got the following error:

(evolution-2.6:9875): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous GError or uninitialized memory.
This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL before it's set.
The overwriting error message was: Error opening directory '/home/robin/.evolution /mail/imap/robin@thorbardin/folders/INBOX/subfolders/Work/subfolders/sunflower/sub folders/swann': Too many open files
*** glibc detected *** evolution: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x08758b2c ***

I can view the folder from mutt without any problems and it has in it under 200 mails.

Restarting evolution for a second time worked ok. Repeating the above steps does repeat the problem though.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Sunday, 22 April 2007, 21:48 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by robin wood (dninja) - Monday, 25 September 2006, 10:52 GMT
Just to add, when the problem repeats, the directory it complains about isn't always the same one. one time it was a folder with only 74 mails.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 25 September 2006, 12:25 GMT
Hmm, try to kill evolution with /opt/gnome/libexec/evolution/2.6/killev before starting a new one

Another thing, I see you have the same error as this blog post I read today: http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=407

Are you using spamassassin to do filtering on your IMAP boxes?
Comment by robin wood (dninja) - Monday, 25 September 2006, 14:19 GMT
That fixed it, I can now save my attachments again.

I'm not running spamassassin I am only running procmail to filter mails. The attachments were 3.3M in total, not massive but maybe worth concidering.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 08 April 2007, 12:04 GMT
Is this still an issue with evolution 2.10?
Comment by robin wood (dninja) - Sunday, 08 April 2007, 14:56 GMT
I haven't had a repeat of this so it can probably be closed.

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