gnome 2.16.1, hald, and openfiles...

[Paul Dokas]

Jeffrey Racine wrote:
> No hald running...
> 
> sysctl kern.openfiles
> kern.openfiles: 1208
> sleep 10
> sysctl kern.openfiles
> kern.openfiles: 1208
> 
> hald running...
> 
> hald
> sysctl kern.openfiles
> kern.openfiles: 1233
> sleep 10
> sysctl kern.openfiles
> kern.openfiles: 1240
> sleep 20
> sysctl kern.openfiles
> kern.openfiles: 1252
> 
> Looks like something is failing to close files, and any suggestions most
> welcome.
> 
> -- Jeff


I just found the same thing here after upgrading to Gnome 2.16.  The culprit
here is hald-addon-storage:

# ps -aux | fgrep hal
haldaemon    669  0.0  0.4  5156  3764  ??  Ss    8:35AM   0:00.88 /usr/local/sbin/hald
root         670  0.0  0.2  3836  2212  ??  I     8:35AM   0:00.04 hald-runner
root         675  0.0  0.2  2912  1592  ??  S     8:35AM   0:00.24 hald-addon-storage: /dev/acd0 (hald-addon-storage)
root         677  0.0  0.2  2912  1592  ??  S     8:35AM   0:00.22 hald-addon-storage: /dev/acd1 (hald-addon-storage)

% fstat | egrep '^root' | awk '{ print $2 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
 585 hald-addon-storage
% fstat | egrep '^root' | awk '{ print $2 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
 606 hald-addon-storage

% fstat | fgrep hald-addon | less
root     hald-addon-storage   677 root /             2 drwxr-xr-x     512  r
root     hald-addon-storage   677   wd /usr/local 800768 drwxr-xr-x    2560  r
root     hald-addon-storage   677 text /usr/local 801129 -r-xr-xr-x    6208  r
root     hald-addon-storage   677    0 /dev         22 crw-rw-rw-    null  r
root     hald-addon-storage   677    1 /dev         22 crw-rw-rw-    null rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677    2 /dev         22 crw-rw-rw-    null rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677    3* local stream c2f1b834 <-> c2f1bb7c
root     hald-addon-storage   677    4 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677    5 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677    6 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677    7 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677    8 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677    9 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677   10 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677   11 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677   12 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677   13 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677   14 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677   15 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677   16 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677   17 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677   18 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677   19 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677   20 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677   21 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw
.
.
.
root     hald-addon-storage   677  253 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677  254 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677  255 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677  256 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677  257 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677  258 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677  259 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw
root     hald-addon-storage   677  260 /dev        150 crw-------    xpt0 rw


So, after a _lot_ of googling, I created the following file, restarted hald
and the problem has gone away.

% cat /usr/local/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/20thirdparty/10-memory-slots.fdi
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="block.device" string="/dev/acd0">
      <merge key="storage.media_check_enabled" type="bool">false</merge>
    </match>
  </device>
  <device>
    <match key="block.device" string="/dev/acd1">
      <merge key="storage.media_check_enabled" type="bool">false</merge>
    </match>
  </device>
  <device>
    <match key="block.device" string="/dev/cd0">
      <merge key="storage.media_check_enabled" type="bool">false</merge>
    </match>
  </device>
  <device>
    <match key="block.device" string="/dev/cd1">
      <merge key="storage.media_check_enabled" type="bool">false</merge>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>


I've also got some problems with rhythmbox not started due to dbus assertions,
but that's best left for another email.

Paul
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Paul Dokas                                     dokas at oitsec.umn.edu
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