1325732 - crash when opening dialog for installing add-on from file. claims "Too many open files"

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Steve Kelem]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/55.0.2883.87 Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Open thunderbird 50.0b3 on Ubuntu 16.10 x86-64.
Select menu item Tools/Addons
From the pull-down menu next to "Search all addons", select "Install Add-on from file..."


Actual results:

Console messages:
(thunderbird:15112): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to read the recently used resources file at '/local/home/skelem/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but the parser failed: Failed to open file '/local/home/skelem/.local/share/recently-used.xbel': Too many open files.
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/libgioremote-volume-monitor.so: cannot open shared object file: Too many open files
Failed to load module: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/libgioremote-volume-monitor.so

(thunderbird:15112): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: Error creating IO channel for /proc/self/mountinfo: Too many open files (g-file-error-quark, 14)
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/libgioremote-volume-monitor.so: cannot open shared object file: Too many open files
Failed to load module: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/libgioremote-volume-monitor.so

(thunderbird:15112): GLib-ERROR **: Creating pipes for GWakeup: Too many open files


Expected results:

It should have opened the dialog and not crashed.

Comment 1

[Steve Kelem]

It happens in safe-mode too.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

please find out how many files/file descriptors have been opened by the thunderbird process

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

please reopen after posting new info