From: Olaf Jahn <jahno@math.tu-berlin.de>
Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: X-Faces and 'too many open files'
Date: 25 Sep 1997 09:14:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ybaraadq2zv.fsf@oddjob.math.TU-Berlin.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of "23 Sep 1997 02:32:25 +0200"
>>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
Hrvoje> Olaf Jahn <jahno@math.tu-berlin.de> writes:
>> Hello everybody.
>>
>> I encountered the following problem with Gnus' ability to
>> display the X-Faces: After browsing through a number of
>> articles containing X-Faces (and having them displayed in the
>> article buffer [1]), my xemacs refuses to display more faces
>> telling me:
>>
>> Cannot open: too many open files
>>
>> It seems that Gnus is somehow leaking file handles (yes, all
>> articles are displayed in the same *Article* buffer). I
>> encountered this in Gnus 3.4.37 and even 3.4.65. My xemacs is
>> 19.15.
Hrvoje> Try setting `debug-on-error' to t and seeing what is going
Hrvoje> on, exactly. BTW, do you show X-Faces directly (in a
Hrvoje> buffer), or through XV?
I show the faces directly in the buffer. See the backtrace below.
Doesn't tell me very much, as I ain't much into Emacs lisps.
Perhaps someone can help.
Olaf
Backtrace:
Signaling: (file-error "Cannot open" "too many open files")
call-process-internal("icontopbm" "/tmp/emacsa005F8" (t nil) nil)
apply(call-process-internal "icontopbm" "/tmp/emacsa005F8" (t nil) nil nil)
call-process("icontopbm" "/tmp/emacsa005F8" (t nil) nil)
apply(call-process "icontopbm" "/tmp/emacsa005F8" (t nil) nil nil)
call-process-region(1 1083 "icontopbm" t (t nil) nil)
apply(call-process-region 1 1083 "icontopbm" t (t nil) nil nil)
gnus-xmas-call-region("icontopbm")
gnus-xmas-article-display-xface(698 838)
article-display-x-face()
apply(article-display-x-face nil)
(if interactive (call-interactively (quote article-display-x-face)) (apply (quote article-display-x-face) args))
)
(save-excursion (set-buffer gnus-article-buffer) (if interactive (call-interactively ...) (apply ... args)))
)
gnus-article-display-x-face()
run-hooks(gnus-article-display-hook)
gnus-article-prepare(219578 nil)
gnus-summary-display-article(219578 nil)
gnus-summary-select-article(nil nil pseudo)
gnus-summary-scroll-up(1)
call-interactively(gnus-summary-scroll-up)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-09-25 7:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-09-22 0:57 Olaf Jahn
1997-09-22 23:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-09-23 0:32 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-09-25 7:14 ` Olaf Jahn [this message]
1997-09-25 14:06 ` Hrvoje Niksic
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