and now the error has gone away for me as well.  something cached in
~/.emacs.d must have been the source of the problem.  sorry for the fire
drill.
/mark

On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 4:52 PM Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> Mark Kennedy <mark.t.kennedy@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > this is one of those "too complicated for a -Q recipe" stories.
> >
> > running "package-list-packages" with a native-comp emacs binary
> > fails with a "too many open files" message.  if lsof is used to examine
> > the emacs process, there are hundreds of read-only file descriptors
> bound to
> > "tramp-archive.elc".  if the same .emacs.d tree is run against an emacs
> > binary built *without* native compilation, it works correctly.
>
> [...]
>
> > System Description: Fedora Linux 35 (Workstation Edition)
>
> I tried that just now (nativecomp on Debian/bookworm), and I didn't get
> any errors.
>
> Are you saying you don't get the error if you say `M-x
> package-list-packages' in an "emacs -Q", but you get it with a non-Q
> Emacs?
>
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