Paul is right, this ain't coot problem. Some other application may be failing to close all the files it opens. It's PulseAudio, which I can attest was notoriously unstable under some Linux flavors. You can try killing it (pulseaudio -k), that what I used to do all the time (I didn't have your bug, but rhythmbox just wouldn't play anything until I did). This may also be hardware specific.
Take a look at this https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-good0.10/+bug/298820 Your best solution may be to upgrade whatever Linux flavor you are running, as this is probably solved in the latest version of gst-plugins-good or whatever is not closing the sound pipes. HTH, Ed. On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 09:57 +0100, Guillermo Carrasco wrote: > Hi, > > I'm the system manager of a network in which we are using coot. > > A few days ago a user sent me a message telling that when he has been working > with coot for about 3-4 hours, he get an error message like this: > > E: client-conf-x11.c: XOpenDisplay() failed > W: core-util.c: Failed to open configuration file > '/users/USERNAME/.pulse/client.conf': Too many open files > W: client-conf.c: Failed to open configuration file '/etc/pulse/client.conf': > Too many open files > W: shm.c: Failed to read /dev/shm/: Too many open files > > I don't know what's happening, can anyone help me please? Thank you very much. -- Coot verendus est
