Bug#923312: gnome-terminal ignores system ulimits

[Harald Dunkel]

Hi Simon,

On 3/11/19 10:04 AM, Simon McVittie wrote:
> 
> I assume from the version that you're using stretch? Please report
> bugs with reportbug whenever possible, that way I'd already have this
> information.
> 

ACK

> 
> Do you have a line for pam_limits.so in /etc/pam.d/systemd-user?
> 

Yes.

> Do you have unmerged local changes for /etc/pam.d/systemd-user,
> with a version containing "session required pam_limits.so" in
> /etc/pam.d/systemd-user.dpkg-dist? If you do, please merge the changes
> in the distributed version into your local version.
> 

No.

> After making sure you have "session required pam_limits.so" in
> /etc/pam.d/systemd-user, do these commands, run from an ordinary
> non-root login session:
> 
>      prlimit -p $(pgrep -u $(id -u) -f "systemd --user")
>      prlimit -p $(pgrep -u $(id -u) -f "dbus-daemon --session")
> 
> report the limits you would expect?
> 

No, I get 1024/4096 for nofiles. /etc/security/limits.d/local.conf
says

	* soft nofile 4096
	* hard nofile 16584
	root soft nofile 4096
	root hard nofile 16584

/proc/$$/limits shows the expected limits, unless gnome-terminal is
involved.

systemd is version 232-25+deb9u9


Regards
Harri