Unable to launch applications using panel.

[roger]

Hi,

Could be a file descriptor leak due to a faulty panel plugin and you have 
reached the maximum number of files open allowed per process.

Assuming that your system is Linux, get the pid of the panel (e.g. ps -ef | 
grep panel), go to /proc/<pid>/fd and count the number of files in there 
(e.g. ls -C1 | wc).

Then check this value against OPEN_MAX defined in /usr/include/...

Similar method may be applied for Unix providing a pseudo /proc fileystem such 
as SunOS.

Cheers,
Roger

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 23:06, Colin Alie wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A couple of days ago, I noticed that I was unable to launch applications
> using the panel.  When I do click on an icon, an Error box opens with the
> following message:
>
> "Failed to create pipe for communicating with child process (Too many open
> files)"
>
> Any idea what's causing this?  I searched the mailing list archives but
> found no reference to this.  I'm using XFCE 4.0.5 from Debian Sarge.
>
> Until next time, Colin.
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