[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#565908: acpid: causes Xorg to hang because of "too many connections"

[Willi Mann]

Ted Felix schrieb:
>  If you don't mind grabbing the code and building it, you can go into
> the file connection_list.c and change this line:
> 
> #define MAX_CONNECTIONS 10
> 
>  To this:
> 
> #define MAX_CONNECTIONS 20
> 
>  That will get rid of the "Too many connections." message in the log. 
> Whether it will solve your problem, I'm not sure.  I will include this
> change in my next monthly release on 2/15.  Let me know if you need more
> info.

I've just found a more reliable way to reproduce this problem: Simply
switch 10 times between the X session and a console.

However, changing MAX_CONNECTIONS to 20 solves the problem - I tried to
switch more than 20 times and the problem did not reappear.

Attached is a patch that, apart from changing MAX_CONNECTIONS,
recalculates highestfd in delete_connection. I wrote that patch because
I first thought that this might be the source of the problem, but it
isn't. But it might be useful anyway.

WM
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