I'm running an AMD Radeon HD 6450 with the driver downloaded and installed from the AMD website (http://support.amd.com/en- us/download/desktop?os=Linux%20x86)
When running "sudo lsof -P `pidof X`" I would also see a lot of entries like another user mentioned above: Xorg 21747 root 103r REG 8,4 0 16387220 /etc/ati/atiapfuser.blb After renaming atiapfuser.blb to something else (atiapfuser.blb.bak), I rebooted, and these entries stopped piling up. It's been a few days since I did this, and I haven't seen them at all, and I don't get any more errors about maximum number of clients reached. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fglrx-installer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/910539 Title: maximum number of clients reached Status in “fglrx-installer” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: X server hits a client limit at a very low value. Somewhere around 95 clients. This is very easy to hit and I have hit this limit frequently since upgrading to 11.10. This has not normally been a problem in decades of running linux. # Firefox downloads PDF file but does not open it as usual $ evince /tmp/CM6206+datasheet+1.7.pdf & [26] 9099 Maximum number of clients reachedCannot parse arguments: Cannot open display: [26] Exit 1 evince /tmp/CM6206+datasheet+1.7.pdf $ ubuntu-bug evince Maximum number of clients reachedCannot start: Gtk couldn't be initialized $ ps axlww | fgrep -i evince | wc 45 632 4771 $ ico Maximum number of clients reachedico: cannot open display ":0" $ killall evince # NOTE that I killed evince and thus about half the clients. $ xlsclients | wc 50 107 1227 $ xlsclients | sort | uniq -c 1 '' /bin/sh /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice 1 cervantes applet.py 1 cervantes bamfdaemon 1 cervantes bluetooth-applet 1 cervantes compiz 1 cervantes deja-dup 6 cervantes emacs 1 cervantes eog 1 cervantes evolution-alarm-notify 4 cervantes file-roller 1 cervantes firefox 1 cervantes gdu-notification-daemon 1 cervantes gnome-fallback-mount-helper 1 cervantes gnome-screensaver 1 cervantes gnome-session 1 cervantes gnome-settings-daemon 1 cervantes gnome-terminal 1 cervantes gpodder 3 cervantes inkscape 1 cervantes nautilus 1 cervantes nm-applet 1 cervantes notify-osd 1 cervantes npviewer.bin 2 cervantes plugin-container 1 cervantes polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 2 cervantes python 1 cervantes scp-dbus-service.py 1 cervantes soffice 1 cervantes ubuntuone-syncdaemon 1 cervantes unity-panel-service 1 cervantes unity-window-decorator 1 cervantes update-manager 1 cervantes update-notifier 2 cervantes vlc 2 cervantes xsane 1 cervantes xterm -bg green -title alpine -e alpine $ sudo lsof -p `pidof X` | grep socket | wc -l [sudo] password for whitis: lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system /home/whitis/.gvfs Output information may be incomplete. 64 $ xwininfo -root -children | wc 882 5982 56551 $ xrestop - Display: :0 Monitoring 67 clients. XErrors: 0 Pixmaps: 162522K total, Other: 1405K total, All: 163928K total res-base Wins GCs Fnts Pxms Misc Pxm mem Other Total PID Identifier 1200000 1784 2 1 38 16732 26206K 435K 26641K ? Compiz 0600000 0 0 0 1 0 22500K 0B 22500K ? <unknown> 1a00000 7 3 1 20 66 20282K 2K 20284K 2723 nautilus 0c00000 6 2 0 18 319 18750K 7K 18757K 2680 gnome-setting 14c00000 59 99 1 2268 2453 12731K 62K 12793K 2426 Downloads 4e00000 4 3 1 18 55 12709K 2K 12712K 11289 food_0002.jpe a400000 25 126 1 1040 151 12316K 8K 12324K 22268 Wireless Test 13600000 48 165 1 128 115 8221K 8K 8229K 26330 BitPim 0000000 2 0 2 0 132 7500K 5K 7505K ? <unknown> 1e00000 0 0 0 1 0 7500K 0B 7500K ? <unknown> 2c00000 9661 67 1 118 1113 1870K 255K 2125K 2782 unity-window- e000000 5 3 1 19 57 1358K 2K 1361K 5330 CN0144-Design 6400000 5 3 1 19 57 1358K 2K 1361K 19168 st51_d00_e00. 6000000 5 3 1 19 57 1358K 2K 1361K 19051 st51_d00_asci 4c00000 5 3 1 19 57 1358K 2K 1361K 11279 15w-pcb.zip [ 13a00000 15 99 1 175 131 900K 6K 906K 30059 Preview 7650 7a00000 15 101 1 167 130 899K 6K 906K 23198 Preview 7650: 7600000 17 7714 1 26 68 472K 183K 656K 21913 virginia_low. 6200000 22 7862 1 50 83 463K 187K 651K 21158 usmap2.svg - 7400000 17 4358 1 28 69 469K 105K 575K 21902 virginia.svg ... Unity and compiz seem to have an inordinate number of windows open. uptime was a mere 19 days. I am not running google chrome, lastpass, or MinimizeToTray which have been blamed for this problem elsewhere. On a related note, the screensaver can take a very long time to let you unlock the screen (and actually displays the desktop to prying eyes before hiding it and displaying the prompt). Last time I needed to unlock, it would not display the password window. I switched to a console window and killed it. It has been mentioned that switching to console and back may free some x server resources. I have 16GB RAM in this machine. ati-driver-installer-11-10-x86.x86_64.run ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx .tmp.unity.support.test.0: ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 CheckboxSubmission: 1e1a99f31ec2933306456e1f141c45d8 CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002 CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,gnomecompat,resize,regex,mousepoll,snap,imgpng,grid,place,unitymtgrabhandles,move,vpswitch,animation,workarounds,wall,session,expo,fade,ezoom,scale,unityshell] CompositorRunning: compiz Date: Sun Jan 1 07:19:16 2012 DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-11-09 01:26:59.103060 DistroCodename: oneiric DistroVariant: ubuntu GdmLog: X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious mode (not 1777) or is not a directory, aborting. GraphicsCard: ATI Technologies Inc Cayman PRO [AMD Radeon 6900 Series] [1002:6719] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:03d4] InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1) JockeyStatus: xorg:fglrx_updates - ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (post-release updates) (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use) xorg:fglrx - ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use) MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=02f53b93-8fd3-44ee-911b-a2d656e2d4d2 ro SourcePackage: xorg UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-09 (53 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 02/17/2011 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 1902 dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.board.name: Crosshair IV Formula dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC. dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890 dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1902:bd02/17/2011:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnCrosshairIVFormula:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion: dmi.product.name: System Product Name dmi.product.version: System Version dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.6+bzr20110929-0ubuntu5 version.fglrx-installer: fglrx-installer N/A version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu26 version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3 version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/910539/+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
