[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#682862: consolekit: Weird warning in syslog : Failed to add monitor on '/dev/pts/1': No space left on device

[Sébastien KALT]

Package: consolekit
Version: 0.4.5-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I'm having lots of warnings from console-kit-daemon in /var/log/syslog :

Apr 19 08:18:35 crapaud64 console-kit-daemon[2041]: WARNING: Failed to add
monitor on '/dev/pts/1': No space left on device
Apr 19 08:18:51 crapaud64 console-kit-daemon[2041]: WARNING: Failed to add
monitor on '/dev/pts/0': No space left on device
Apr 19 08:19:05 crapaud64 console-kit-daemon[2041]: WARNING: Failed to add
monitor on '/dev/pts/1': No space left on device
Apr 19 08:19:21 crapaud64 console-kit-daemon[2041]: WARNING: Failed to add
monitor on '/dev/pts/0': No space left on device
Apr 19 08:19:35 crapaud64 console-kit-daemon[2041]: WARNING: Failed to add
monitor on '/dev/pts/1': No space left on device
Apr 19 08:19:51 crapaud64 console-kit-daemon[2041]: WARNING: Failed to add
monitor on '/dev/pts/0': No space left on device
Apr 19 08:20:05 crapaud64 console-kit-daemon[2041]: WARNING: Failed to add
monitor on '/dev/pts/1': No space left on device
Apr 19 08:20:21 crapaud64 console-kit-daemon[2041]: WARNING: Failed to add
monitor on '/dev/pts/0': No space left on device
Apr 19 08:20:35 crapaud64 console-kit-daemon[2041]: WARNING: Failed to add
monitor on '/dev/pts/1': No space left on device
Apr 19 08:20:51 crapaud64 console-kit-daemon[2041]: WARNING: Failed to add
monitor on '/dev/pts/0': No space left on device

I have those warnings when I launch my session under user1, and then I su -
user2 in a urxvt console (pts/0 this morning) and/or I launch an application
under user2 with gksu -u user2 iceweasel (pts/2 this morning).

If I login under user2 in a console, like tty2, then I have the same kind of
messages :

Apr 19 08:34:21 crapaud64 console-kit-daemon[2041]: WARNING: Failed to add
monitor on '/dev/pts/0': No space left on device
Apr 19 08:34:35 crapaud64 console-kit-daemon[2041]: WARNING: Failed to add
monitor on '/dev/pts/1': No space left on device
Apr 19 08:34:36 crapaud64 console-kit-daemon[2041]: WARNING: Failed to add
monitor on '/dev/tty2': No space left on device

I don't have physical space problems on my laptop :

$ df -h
Filesystem                                              Size  Used Avail Use%
Mounted on
rootfs                                                  153G  101G   45G  70% /
udev                                                    1.9G     0  1.9G   0%
/dev
tmpfs                                                   390M  408K  390M   1%
/run
/dev/disk/by-uuid/d30adeed-998c-4f8b-b25c-185113da1cda  153G  101G   45G  70% /
tmpfs                                                   5.0M     0  5.0M   0%
/run/lock
tmpfs                                                   780M  240K  779M   1%
/tmp
tmpfs                                                   780M   76K  780M   1%
/run/shm

As suggested on debian-user ML, I tried booting with cgroup_enable=memory and
cgroup_disable=memory, and I always have the warnings.

I can work without any troubles on my laptop, so it might not be very serious,
but as it is a warning it might mean something is wrongly configured.

If you need any other infromation, feel free to ask.

Regards,

Sebastien KALT



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (800, 'testing'), (700, 'stable-updates'), (700, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages consolekit depends on:
ii  dbus                   1.6.2-2
ii  libc6                  2.13-35
ii  libck-connector0       0.4.5-3
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.6.2-2
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.100-1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.32.3-1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-1
ii  libx11-6               2:1.5.0-1
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages consolekit recommends:
ii  libpam-ck-connector  0.4.5-3

consolekit suggests no packages.

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