Bug#812835: boinc-client: leaks hundreds of x11 connections

2016-01-26 Thread Preston Maness
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Howdy all, I've got a new PR open for upstream: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1478 And I've attached the patch in the meantime. The patch just closes the connections that are opened to the Xservers. I had erroneously thought that dropping ou

Bug#812835: boinc-client: leaks hundreds of x11 connections

2016-01-26 Thread Preston Maness
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Howdy, I'm almost positive this is a bug introduced by my pull request to add XSS-based idle detection back into the boinc client: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/1453 I am able to replicate the issue (seeing the number of socket connections g

Bug#812835: boinc-client: leaks hundreds of x11 connections

2016-01-26 Thread Dan Merillat
Package: boinc-client Version: 7.6.22+dfsg-1exp3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, boinc-client caused "maximum number of clients reached" errors on my system. xrestop showed 248 clients. Ran 'service boinc-client stop' and the client count dropped to 28. Multiple reboots had the same problem