Bug#517701: file descriptors leak during vgscan invocations

[Bastian Blank]

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 04:34:30PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> On the last few upgrades of lvm2, I saw the following output:

This warnings are there since a long time.

> File descriptor 51 (/var/lib/debtags/vocabulary.idx) leaked on vgchange invocation. Parent PID 32047: /bin/sh
> File descriptor 52 (/var/lib/debtags/vocabulary) leaked on vgchange invocation. Parent PID 32047: /bin/sh
> File descriptor 53 (/var/lib/debtags/package-tags.idx) leaked on vgchange invocation. Parent PID 32047: /bin/sh
> .
> 
> This is a bit scary. First of all, I don't know what it means, not
> can I find any information about it.

Ask the owner of this files, most likely debtags.

>                                      Second, and possibly more
> importantly, what why does LVM even know about file descriptors?

| for i in 3 ... high number: close(i)

>                             Either that's due to featuritis, some
> other design errors, or there's something else gravely wrong.

Don't shoot the messenger. Find the real cause.

Bastian

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