Bug 113508

Summary:	linc-cleanup-sockets in wrong package
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse>
Component:	GNOME	Assignee:	Michael Meeks <mmeeks>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 3
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Jon Nelson 2005-08-27 02:30:51 UTC

linc-cleanup-sockets is currently in orbit2-devel but it's not a development
tool, it's often useful (and in some environments required) to clean up the
stale socket files left over.  In one particular instance, a user had over
60,000 of these files slowing down the use of basically all gtk/gnome programs
to a crawl.

linc-cleanup-sockets is the recommended solution to this common problem, and in
some environments it's even run as part of .bash_login or .bash_logout.

Comment 1 Michael Meeks 2005-08-31 14:26:20 UTC

True - we should prolly run linc-cleanup-sockets (in the background) as part of
our login session / script - and yes - unfortunately there's no way to cleanup
those sockets otherwise.

Ideally of course, we should be using anonymous sockets (without an associated
file system node) - a rather more trivial fix (for Linux) - but one we never got
around to - that's prolly the better (simpler) fix. to
ORBit2/linc/src/linc-protocols.c (link_protocol_get_sockaddr_unix).

Comment 2 Gary Ekker 2005-08-31 17:09:31 UTC

linc-cleanup-sockets is now included in the main package.

Michael, I guess you were volunteering to make a patch for the second part?

Comment 3 Ruediger Oertel 2005-09-01 13:59:51 UTC

you are aware that we do not even have a "linc" package anymore ?

Comment 4 Michael Meeks 2005-09-01 20:11:07 UTC

Sure - I have a hacked-up, not-very-tested patch that works for me & passes the
ORBit2 regression tests but may introduce a hideous security problem ... ;-)

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315060

Comment 5 Jon Nelson 2005-09-10 19:35:55 UTC

Yay! Thanks for moving linc-cleanup-sockets to the main package!
As for the other issue(s), if they aren't related to this bug, should they be
their own bugs so this can be closed?

Comment 6 Jon Nelson 2005-11-20 23:06:17 UTC

It looks to me like linc-cleanup-sockets is now in the orbit2 rpm (for 10.1), so I think this bug could be closed.

Thanks!

Comment 7 Jon Nelson 2005-11-22 21:18:29 UTC

Fixed for 10.1 for sure.