On 07/10/14 06:51, Rick Walker wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm still working on my problem with hundreds of zombie dbus-daemons. I > guess it isn't that common of an issue. > > After some investigation, I have found that the main culprit seems to be > konsole(1). I mostly use my system in command-line mode and am > constantly creating and killing konsoles for various jobs. > > For some reason, creating a konsole forks a dbus-daemon (like this > output from ps -ef): > > walker 12859 1 0 Jul08 ? 00:00:00 > /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session > > When the konsole terminal is killed, the daemon never goes away. My > system performance gradually goes downhill and eventually I get a "no > more system file descriptor" error as the number of daemons pile up. > > Any suggestions for how to debug or fix this? Killing the dbus-daemons > locks the window system. Should I take off the fork option in the dbus > config file? Is there some way I can start konsoles so that > they do a better job of reaping dbus-daemons? I'm running kdm for my display manager and use KDE as my desktop. I've ssh'd into the system before logging in and I see.... [egreshko@f20f ~]$ ps -eaf | grep dbus-daemon dbus 638 1 0 Jul09 ? 00:00:06 /bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation after login and KDE desktop with no konsole started.... dbus 638 1 0 Jul09 ? 00:00:06 /bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation egreshko 7131 1 0 08:46 ? 00:00:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 4 --print-address 6 --session egreshko 7707 7699 0 08:46 ? 00:00:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --config-file=/etc/at-spi2/accessibility.conf --nofork --print-address 3 I then started 10 "copies" of konsole from the "Application Launcher". But, I still only get.... [egreshko@f20f ~]$ ps -aux | grep konsole egreshko 8180 0.5 5.4 682800 69572 ? Sl 08:54 0:01 /usr/bin/konsole and [egreshko@f20f ~]$ ps -eaf | grep dbus-dae dbus 638 1 0 Jul09 ? 00:00:06 /bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation egreshko 7131 1 0 08:46 ? 00:00:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 4 --print-address 6 --session egreshko 7707 7699 0 08:46 ? 00:00:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --config-file=/etc/at-spi2/accessibility.conf --nofork --print-address 3 -- If you can't laugh at yourself, others will gladly oblige. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
