Package: boinc-client Version: 7.6.22+dfsg-1exp3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
boinc-client caused "maximum number of clients reached" errors on my system. xrestop showed 248 clients. Ran 'service boinc-client stop' and the client count dropped to 28. Multiple reboots had the same problem - after a few minutes the client list would start filling up with <unknown> clients. I had installed boinc a long time ago, intending to use it but never set it up - no projects or work. The problems began only after a reboot on Monday, but the last change was january 3: 2016-01-03 00:04:52 upgrade boinc-client:amd64 7.0.15+dfsg-1 7.6.22+dfsg-1 The only explanation is that there was no reboot after that upgrade, so perhaps the client either did not start or remained running the old 7.0.15 version. I verified the boinc was the cause by purging boinc-client and re-installing from experimental - after a few minutes it leaked again: harik@dan:~$ sudo ls -l /proc/`pidof boinc`/fd total 0 lr-x------ 1 boinc boinc 64 Jan 26 18:50 0 -> /dev/null lrwx------ 1 boinc boinc 64 Jan 26 18:50 1 -> socket:[88000] lrwx------ 1 boinc boinc 64 Jan 26 18:50 10 -> socket:[127916] lrwx------ 1 boinc boinc 64 Jan 26 18:50 100 -> socket:[129791] lrwx------ 1 boinc boinc 64 Jan 26 18:50 101 -> socket:[129792] lrwx------ 1 boinc boinc 64 Jan 26 18:50 102 -> socket:[129828] lrwx------ 1 boinc boinc 64 Jan 26 18:50 103 -> socket:[129836] lrwx------ 1 boinc boinc 64 Jan 26 18:50 104 -> socket:[130925] lrwx------ 1 boinc boinc 64 Jan 26 20:42 105 -> socket:[131250] lrwx------ 1 boinc boinc 64 Jan 26 20:42 106 -> socket:[131251] lrwx------ 1 boinc boinc 64 Jan 26 18:50 107 -> socket:[131252] lrwx------ 1 boinc boinc 64 Jan 26 18:50 108 -> socket:[131288] lrwx------ 1 boinc boinc 64 Jan 26 18:50 109 -> socket:[131291] ... harik@dan:~$ sudo ls -l /proc/`pidof boinc`/fd | grep socket | wc -l 212 Killing boinc dropped my client count from 242 to 33, and I could open new windows again. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, armel Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-dan (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages boinc-client depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii ca-certificates 20160104 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.58 ii init-system-helpers 1.27 ii libboinc7 7.6.22+dfsg-1exp3 ii libc6 2.21-7 ii libcurl3 7.46.0-1+b1 ii libgcc1 1:6-20160122-1 ii libstdc++6 6-20160122-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 ii libxss1 1:1.2.2-1 pn python:any <none> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 boinc-client recommends no packages. Versions of packages boinc-client suggests: pn boinc-client-fglrx <none> pn boinc-client-nvidia-cuda <none> pn boinc-client-opencl <none> ii boinc-manager 7.6.22+dfsg-1exp3 ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+5 -- Configuration Files: /etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg' -- debconf information: boinc-client/remove_boinc_dir: true
