Ubuntu
nicotine package

nicotine crashes when you perform a search

Bug #293442 reported by Robin Sheat on 2008-11-04

This bug affects 7 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	nicotine (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nicotine

1) Open nicotine
2) Once it's connected to the server, run a search
3) Watch the connection count approach 1000
4) Moments before it gets there, watch it freeze up

On the console it says:
Can't save config file, I/O error: [Errno 24] Too many open files: '/home/robin/.nicotine/config.new'

This makes the program completely unusable :(

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darthanubis (darthanubis) wrote on 2010-01-22:

You have just hit your connection limit of 921. Nicotine+ will drop connections for your protection. If you get this message often you should search for less generic terms, or increase your per-process file descriptor limit.

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Toltech (robert-toltech) wrote on 2010-04-25:

Above report confirmed + error msg, also the below error seen just before the crash (in an infinite loop)

pynicotine.slskmessages.FileSearchResult unpack requires a string
argument of length 4

This is a known error:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1444023
http://www.nicotine-plus.org/ticket/589

Upgrading to version /nicotine+-1.2.15.tar.gz from the nicotine-plus site, solves the problem