https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698243 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698243#c0 Summary: Cannot Delete Temp Files From orbit-gdm Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.4 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: GNOME AssignedTo: bnc-team-gnome@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: drichard@largo.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1 The temp files in /tmp/orbit-gdm continue to grow in number and are never purged, and any attempt to delete them cause GDM to fail. I tried to delete them first based on date, and this issue happened...so I assumed that a live socket/file was deleted. So I used /usr/bin/linc-cleanup-sockets which only deletes dead files and the same thing happened again. What happens is that gconfd processes begin to spin and consume all of the memory on the server until it's so busy swapped that it requires a reboot. So it seems like just *touching* anything that folder causes this failure. It's almost like gdm has the whole folder locked and assumes nothing will change. Before I knew about the files, at one point we had grown to over 1 million linc* files, and as the number grows it seems like gdm begins to get slower. Obviously one could get them at reboot, but if your goal is to have the servers running for months at a time, this isn't a good solution. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.