Comment 17 for bug 713879

I used byobu 4.37-0ubuntu1 in Ubuntu Server 11.10 64 bit.

I left byobu running. But every few hours it will automatically close saying

"pipe: Too many open files y".

Ulimit -n was 1024.

I upgraded to 5.16-0ubuntu1~ppa5 and the problem still existed. I raised ulimit -n to 4096. Instead of crashing it will go into an infinite loop using 100% CPU.

These were 2 backtraces from the infinite loop.

#0 0x00007f7ac5ad25f3 in select () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#1 0x00000000004447bc in ?? ()
#2 0x0000000000404e3f in ?? ()
#3 0x00007f7ac5a1730d in __libc_start_main () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#4 0x00000000004057a9 in ?? ()
#5 0x00007fffe7cad3f8 in ?? ()
#6 0x000000000000001c in ?? ()
#7 0x0000000000000006 in ?? ()
#8 0x00007fffe7cad7f6 in ?? ()
#9 0x00007fffe7cad7fd in ?? ()
#10 0x00007fffe7cad800 in ?? ()
#11 0x00007fffe7cad806 in ?? ()
#12 0x00007fffe7cad809 in ?? ()
#13 0x00007fffe7cad82c in ?? ()
#14 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

#0 0x00007f7ac5aef8b0 in __read_chk () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#1 0x000000000041ec7e in ?? ()
#2 0x0000000000444853 in ?? ()
#3 0x0000000000404e3f in ?? ()
#4 0x00007f7ac5a1730d in __libc_start_main () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#5 0x00000000004057a9 in ?? ()
#6 0x00007fffe7cad3f8 in ?? ()
#7 0x000000000000001c in ?? ()
#8 0x0000000000000006 in ?? ()
#9 0x00007fffe7cad7f6 in ?? ()
#10 0x00007fffe7cad7fd in ?? ()
#11 0x00007fffe7cad800 in ?? ()
#12 0x00007fffe7cad806 in ?? ()
#13 0x00007fffe7cad809 in ?? ()
#14 0x00007fffe7cad82c in ?? ()
#15 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()