@snabb (Janne) #7 or @ljh48332 (Luke) just detected this again in latest release and will present a workaround that solves it even with continuous Ubuntu/Debian/Gnome updates. Could you give some insight into why this service is kept and not removed completely? Even the Gnome threads state it should be removed. Most people probably are not aware of the problem but it is a severe bug from a performance, data integrity and hardware perspective.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1745666 Title: gsd-housekeeping leaks file descriptors Status in gnome-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Apparently a process called gsd-housekeeping is periodically invoked on my Ubuntu 17.10 system. It traverses my /var/tmp for some reason. Looks like it is leaking file descriptors while doing so. My syslogs are full of error messages like the following: Jan 26 20:21:42 snail gsd-housekeepin[3178]: Failed to enumerate children of /var/tmp/chmaa-backup/usr/include/c++/5/bits/stl_raw_storage_iter.h: Error opening directory '/var/tmp/chmaa-backup/usr/include/c++/5/bits/stl_raw_storage_iter.h': Too many open files Jan 26 20:21:42 snail gsd-housekeepin[3178]: Failed to enumerate children of /var/tmp/chmaa-backup/usr/include/c++/5/bits/basic_string.h: Error opening directory '/var/tmp/chmaa-backup/usr/include/c++/5/bits/basic_string.h': Too many open files Jan 26 20:21:42 snail gsd-housekeepin[3178]: Failed to enumerate children of /var/tmp/chmaa-backup/usr/include/c++/5/bits/quoted_string.h: Error opening directory '/var/tmp/chmaa-backup/usr/include/c++/5/bits/quoted_string.h': Too many open files Jan 26 20:21:42 snail gsd-housekeepin[3178]: Failed to enumerate children of /var/tmp/chmaa-backup/usr/include/c++/5/bits/postypes.h: Error opening directory '/var/tmp/chmaa-backup/usr/include/c++/5/bits/postypes.h': Too many open files Jan 26 20:21:42 snail gsd-housekeepin[3178]: Failed to enumerate children of /var/tmp/chmaa-backup/usr/include/c++/5/bits/stl_iterator.h: Error opening directory '/var/tmp/chmaa-backup/usr/include/c++/5/bits/stl_iterator.h': Too many open files Jan 26 20:21:42 snail gsd-housekeepin[3178]: Failed to enumerate children of /var/tmp/chmaa-backup/usr/include/c++/5/bits/move.h: Error opening directory '/var/tmp/chmaa-backup/usr/include/c++/5/bits/move.h': Too many open files $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 17.10 Release: 17.10 $ apt policy gnome-settings-daemon gnome-settings-daemon: Installed: 3.26.2-0ubuntu0.1 Candidate: 3.26.2-0ubuntu0.1 Version table: *** 3.26.2-0ubuntu0.1 500 500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.26.1-0ubuntu5 500 500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1745666/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
