more info on hundreds of dbus-daemons

David Benfell benfell at parts-unknown.org
Thu Jul 10 00:39:30 UTC 2014


Rick Walker writes:

>
> 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.....
>
> 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.

First, this sounds like a bug and a rather nasty one at that. Second, do  
other terminal emulators exhibit this behavior?

-- 
David Benfell
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