From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: (file-error "Creating pipe" "too many open files") Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:51:17 +0200 Message-ID: <44B76915.9020900@swipnet.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152870769 17882 80.91.229.2 (14 Jul 2006 09:52:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 09:52:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 14 11:52:47 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G1KLf-0005c6-EW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:52:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G1KLe-0000Dl-UY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:52:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G1KLD-0008LJ-L7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:52:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G1KL6-0008BJ-3i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:52:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G1KL4-0008Aq-QQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:52:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.9.185] (helo=av9-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G1KN2-0003Xu-9Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:54:04 -0400 Original-Received: by av9-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 9EA1D3822F; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:52:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.102]) by av9-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F63037FC5; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:52:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from coolsville.localdomain (81-235-205-204-no59.tbcn.telia.com [81.235.205.204]) by smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F08337E44; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:52:01 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060615) Original-To: sds@podval.org In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:56993 Archived-At: Sam Steingold skrev: >> * Kim F. Storm [2006-07-13 15:50:19 +0200]: >> >> >> Find the process id of your emacs process, eg. using `ps'. >> Let's say it is 2371. >> >> Then do >> >> ls -l /proc/2371/fd >> >> to see which files / sockets are open. That may give all of >> us a clue to what's going on. >> > > yes, sound is the guilty party > > total 1023 > 1 lrwx------ 1 sds ocaml 64 Jul 13 10:10 0 -> /dev/pts/1 > 1 lrwx------ 1 sds ocaml 64 Jul 13 10:10 1 -> /dev/pts/1 > 1 lrwx------ 1 sds ocaml 64 Jul 13 10:10 10 -> socket:[1988356] > 1 lrwx------ 1 sds ocaml 64 Jul 13 10:10 100 -> /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p > 1 lrwx------ 1 sds ocaml 64 Jul 13 10:10 1000 -> /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p > 1 lr-x------ 1 sds ocaml 64 Jul 13 10:10 1001 -> /dev/snd/timer > 1 lrwx------ 1 sds ocaml 64 Jul 13 10:10 1002 -> /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p > 1 lr-x------ 1 sds ocaml 64 Jul 13 10:10 1003 -> /dev/snd/timer > My fault I'm afarid. I have checked in a fix. This might also fix the previous problem you reported in "emacs hangs in alsa_open". I can't be sure about that though, as I haven't been able to reproduce it. It must be because I have different sound hardware. Jan D.