[Pkg-audacious-maintainers] Bug#524470: audacious: Playlist does not close filedescriptors when loading MP3 metadata and stops loading it

[François Cerbelle]

Package: audacious
Version: 1.5.1-4
Severity: important

When adding a whole directory of MP3 files in the playlist, it begins to
scan the files to extract the meta data (author, album, title, time,
...) and display it in the playlist. To do so, it opens each MP3 file,
reads the information and should close it. But it seems not to close the
files. So the informations appears only for the N first files and stops.
As it stopped because all the filedescriptors are used, audacious can
not open any more file and can not play. If I increase the ulimit (-n),
it can get information from more files and stop again, ... I tried to
increase ulimit -n 15000, the playlist got 2500 files information and
stopped. It was unable to open a single more file to play it, and there
was 15000 open file descriptors in /proc/PID/fd . When I run audacious
from command line, the same thing happens, and when I quit audacious it
tries to save the config but can not, the error message is explicit.

The limit was about 1500 files for ulimit -n 1024
So the files seems to be openned multiple times


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
   APT prefers stable
   APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages audacious depends on:
ii  audacious-plugins       1.5.1-2          Base plugins for audacious
ii  dbus                    1.2.1-5          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gtk2-engines-pixbuf     2.12.12-1~lenny1 Pixbuf-based theme for GTK+ 2.x
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.22.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudclient1           1.5.1-4          audacious dbus remote control libr
ii  libaudid3tag1           1.5.1-4          audacious id3 tag manipulation lib
ii  libc6                   2.7-18           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2               1.6.4-7          The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.2.1-5          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.76-1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.16.6-1+lenny1  The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.12.12-1~lenny1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii  libice6                 2:1.0.4-1        X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libmcs1                 0.7.1-1          Abstraction library to store confi
ii  libmowgli1              0.6.1-1          a high performance development fra
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.20.5-3         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsamplerate0          0.1.4-1          audio rate conversion library
ii  libsm6                  2:1.0.3-2        X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                2:1.1.5-2        X11 client-side library

Versions of packages audacious recommends:
ii  audacious-plugins-extra       1.5.1-2    Various extra plugins for audaciou
ii  unzip                         5.52-12    De-archiver for .zip files

audacious suggests no packages.

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