without HAL installed KDE seems to claim more and more xserver clients so that after some time it's not possible to start any new windows/programs. Trying to start any new graphical program results in a "Maximum number of clients reached" error. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. unemerge HAL 2. emerge KDE 3. run KDE Actual Results: KDE works...for some time...but about an hour later I get the "Maximum number of clients reached" error when trying to start any new program Expected Results: KDE works for longer than an hour. After running a few times in this error I started "xrestop -b" right from the start after logging in KDE. There I get a lot of these: 59 - <unknown> ( PID: ? ): res_base : ox600000 res_mask : ox1fffff windows : 0 GCs : 1 fonts : 0 pixmaps : 0 pictures : 0 glyphsets : 0 colormaps : 0 passive grabs : 0 cursors : 0 unknowns : 0 pixmap bytes : 0 other bytes : ~24 total bytes : ~24 And I can watch getting one more about every minute. So after two hours I reach the 255 xserver limit for clients. After reinstalling HAL and restarting KDE all worked fine. Sorry, no idea how to track down which program causes this...
Sorry, cant reproduce here. Please attach the output of emerge --info
Created attachment 264085 [details] emerge --info
Sorry, I knew I forgot something... At the start I was completely clueless what could have caused this problem at all (okay, in fact I'm still clueless) but searching the web a bit I found this: http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=39413 After reading it I tried to emerge HAL again and it solved the problem for me...can't say why or what went wrong.
Okay...and another few "sorries" ;) First for not really having a clue how this bugtracker works and if I can edit my previous comments...and second for almost having forgotten this after getting it to work with HAL again. But just tried again and still have the same problem without HAL. Not even need to uninstall HAL..a "/etc/init.d/hald stop" and then a "/etc/init.d/xdm restart" already leads to the same problem for me. So I renamed my ".kde4" directory and started with a fresh configuration...and even then I can watch with "xrestop -b" getting a new "<unknown> ( PID: ? )" claiming 1 GC about every minute. So doesn't look like it's the fault of one of the usual programs I have running right from the start. I don't really have much of a clue about the xserver...and without a PID I can't figure out what program causes this...so open for suggestions. ,)
i don't think it is a kde issue
No idea why this was moved to freedesktop-bugs@ but moving back to kde@ as none involved packages are even in Portage anymore. sys-apps/hal has been removed.
No idea what to do with this, but hal is gone and people seem to do mostly just fine...
Sorry...forgot this bug. I did a --emptytree rebuild some time ago and during that got rid of hal. Afterwards I didn't get the problem anymore. But I also didn't use the same KDE version at that point...so really no clue what caused it and even less how I got rid of it.
