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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