[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#618323: Bug#618323: Bug#618323: chromium-browser: Chromium overloads X server: "Maximum number of clients reached"

[Thibaut VARENE]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Giuseppe Iuculano <iuculano at debian.org> wrote:
> On 03/14/2011 10:24 PM, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
>> I can't tell for sure whether the last sec update triggered it, but
>> I'm not sure either I've experienced this before. And yes, I'm
>> up-to-date.
>
> Could you please install the wheezy/testing version and test it? It is
> an ancient version without the last security updates.

I've installed chromium-browser and chromium-browser-inspector from
wheezy, but since my previous chromium session has eventually been
lost in the crashes, I will not be able to tell if the bug happens
with it before a while.

Yet, I can't make sense of what's happening now:

It must have screwed something up big time, because with *no browser
running*, I cannot start more than one X application with my current
setup (X session which has been running for 12 days), after which I
immediately get the "Maximum clients" message. And I cannot verify how
much clients/windows that is because xwininfo/xlsclient will show the
"max clients" and won't run.

To give some perspective, here's what I have before and after starting xclock:

$ xlsclients |wc -l
33
$ xwininfo -root -children|wc -l
272
$ xclock &
[1] 17388
$ xlsclients |wc -l
Maximum number of clients reachedxlsclients:  unable to open display ":0.0"
0
$ xwininfo -root -children|wc -l
Maximum number of clients reachedxwininfo:  unable to open display ':0.0'
0
[killing xclock here]
varenet at Kanti:~/new$ xlsclients |wc -l
33
[1]+  Done                    xclock
varenet at Kanti:~/new$ xwininfo -root -children|wc -l
272

I suppose I'll have to restart X pretty soon, my system is now mostly
unusable...

HTH

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Thibaut VARENE
http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/