Analog Clock Causing Weird Problems

[Richard Heck]

Hi, all,

If I put the analog clock widget on my desktop, then I get a series of 
errors when KDE starts, viz:

Mar  8 08:22:20 rghquad pulseaudio[2855]: module-udev-detect.c: 
inotify_init1() failed: Too many open files
Mar  8 08:22:20 rghquad pulseaudio[2855]: module.c: Failed to load  
module "module-udev-detect" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
Mar  8 08:22:20 rghquad pulseaudio[2855]: main.c: Module load failed.
Mar  8 08:22:20 rghquad pulseaudio[2855]: main.c: Failed to initialize 
daemon.
Mar  8 08:22:20 rghquad pulseaudio[2853]: main.c: Daemon startup failed.

repeating several times. I know this sounds crazy, but it is absolutely 
reproducible. Even if the clock is the only widget on the desktop, I get 
these errors, plus a dialog box asking me if certain sound devices 
should be removed since they weren't found. This is with KDE 4.7.4 on an 
up-do-date F16.

The issue has been around since about 23 February, when I reported the 
problem on the Fedora list
      
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2012-February/414329.html
though I didn't know its cause then. So it must have been caused by some 
update around that time.

Richard