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alsa-lib package

  1. Bug #451893
  2. Comment #36

Comment 36 for bug 451893

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In , Don (don-redhat-bugs) wrote :

Happened again today.

First a number of these messages in rapid succession (all with same exact timestamp):
Dec 9 09:42:06 foo pulseaudio[1517]: shm.c: shm_open() failed: Too many open files

Followed by a LOT of these until /var/log/messages fills up the root disk:
Dec 9 09:42:07 foo pulseaudio[1517]: socket-server.c: accept(): Too many open files

Have to kill the pulseaudio pid 1517 and then just truncate /var/log/messages.