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--- Begin Message ---
Package: gajim
Version: 2.4.6-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
I've run into a rare, intermittant crashing problem with Gajim recently. Gajim
would crash, rarely and seemingly at random on *receipt* of a message,
reporting a generic python crash in desktop notifications. I think I'm homing
in on the problem, running it in a terminal with -v offered little except:
GLib-ERROR **: Creating pipes for GWakeup: Too many open files
After some google-fu, I began watching Gajim with:
watch -n 0.5 "ls /proc/<gajim pid>/fd | wc -l"
and the error message looks to be spot on. Every time I receive a message Gajim
will open 4 files and never close them. This is not the case when sending a
message. So, if I receive too many messages (woe is me), it will open too many
files and it will crash. I'm not sure when this started, maybe the previous
update or the one before, I rarely have Gajim on more than a few hours at a
time, so I haven't run into this crash more than a handful of times.
I don't think it's particular to my setup, I'm not using any strange plugins,
just a box-standard Gajim installation interacting with a box-standard Prosody
server.
Let me know if I can debug it more usefully (and tell me how).
Cheers,
AR
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 7.0.12+deb14.1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages gajim depends on:
ii desktop-file-utils 0.28-1
ii gir1.2-adw-1 1.9.1-1
ii gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0 1.28.4-1
ii gir1.2-gtk-4.0 4.22.4+ds-1
ii gir1.2-gtksource-5 5.20.0-1
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad 1.28.4-1
ii python3 3.13.9-3+b1
ii python3-cairo 1.27.0-2+b1
ii python3-cryptography 46.0.7-1
ii python3-css-parser 1.0.10-1
ii python3-emoji 2.15.0-1
ii python3-gi 3.56.3-1
ii python3-gi-cairo 3.56.3-1
ii python3-h2 4.3.0-1
ii python3-httpx 0.28.1-1
ii python3-idna 3.11-1
ii python3-keyring 25.7.0-1
ii python3-nbxmpp 7.2.0-1
ii python3-omemo-dr 1.2.0-2
ii python3-packaging 26.2-1
ii python3-pil 12.2.0-1
ii python3-precis-i18n 1.1.2-1
ii python3-qrcode 8.2-1
ii python3-socksio 1.0.0-3
ii python3-sqlalchemy 2.0.48+ds1-1
ii python3-truststore 0.10.4-1
Versions of packages gajim recommends:
ii ca-certificates 20260601
ii dbus 1.16.2-5+b1
ii fonts-noto-color-emoji 2.051-1
ii gajim-openpgp 1.8.1-1
ii gir1.2-geoclue-2.0 2.8.1-1
ii gir1.2-gsound-1.0 1.0.3-4+b1
ii gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0 1.28.4-1
ii gir1.2-secret-1 0.21.7-2+b1
ii gir1.2-spelling-1 0.4.10-2
ii gstreamer1.0-gl 1.28.4-1
ii gstreamer1.0-gtk4 0.15.2-1
ii gstreamer1.0-nice 0.1.23-2+b1
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-good 1.28.4-1
ii plasma-workspace [notification-daemon] 4:6.6.5-2
ii pulseaudio-utils 17.0+dfsg1-2.1+b1
ii python3-dbus 1.4.0-1+b1
ii python3-gssapi 1.11.1-2
ii python3-sentry-sdk 2.60.0-3
Versions of packages gajim suggests:
ii libxss1 1:1.2.3-1+b4
pn nautilus-sendto <none>
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 2.5.0-1
This problem seems to be fixed, though I don't know why. It might actually have
been the recent update to pidgin that did it, I was beginning to suspect it
might have been a strange pidgin-gajim interaction causing the crashes.
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