Bug 80359

Summary:	with gtk-2.6: failed in listen(): Invalid argument
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Gábor Farkas <gabor>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Gábor Farkas 2005-02-01 10:15:04 UTC

i have gtk-2.6.1.

basically all gtk using apps give this warning on the console, and keep repeating it:
"failed in listen(): Invalid argument"

for example, with eclipse-3.1m4 downloaded from eclipse.org (not the eclipse-sdk.ebuild).
i start it, it gives me this message a lllllot of times...
and after some time it starts to show this message on the console:

"fail to create socket: Too many open files"

and it's the end. i cannot do anything in eclipse...

i assume the same fate would avait all gtk programs, if i would run it long enough..

for example firefox started to crash for me..not too often..approx. 3-5times a day. and it was a lot more solid before.

reverting back to gtk-2.4.* seems to fix this.

i did not try to emerge gtk-2.4.*,
but i downloaded, compiled and intalled gtk-2.4 into a separate folder, and with LD_LIBRARY_PATH instructed eclipse to use the lib-files from that folder.

after doing this, eclipse is stable again.

Comment 1 Gábor Farkas 2005-02-01 10:15:56 UTC

i tried recompiling, it didn't help.
my test-app was gthumb.

it shows those warnings.

i recompiled gthumb. still the same.
then i recompiled gtk+. still the same ;(

Comment 2 Gábor Farkas 2005-02-01 10:33:24 UTC

ok, i've found the problem.

the problem is uim. (an input method for gtk).

if i unmerge uim,
the warning doesn't show up anymore.

if i emerge it again, the warning is back.

i'll close this bug, and try to find a solution to uim's problem.