[cups.general] Re: Unable to create cert file... too many open fi les

[Tom Callahan]

I would check your limits.conf file for the user running cups.... More 
than likely you are hitting the limits of number of open files for a 
specific user.

Thanks,
Tom Callahan

bothapn at lantic.net wrote:

>I have the exact same problem. I'm thinking this is relevant to Suse.
>The system is i586 with updated packages and I have tried all f the 8
>solutions offerred by Google.
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>Have anyone compared Suse en some distro like Fedora is this matter?
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>>Sun Advocate Webmaster wrote:
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>>>I'm having a very unusual error with cups. The daemon fails every
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>>>hours. I get this error (repeatedly):
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>>>E [10/Apr/2005:10:37:49 -0600] AddCert: Unable to create certificate
>>>file /etc/cups/certs/0 - Too many open files
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>>Sorry, never heard about it. :(
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>>>I haven't done anything special with the config. I installed cups on
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>>>SuSE computer, and then used YaST2 to set the printers up.
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>>Which SUSE version or (better) which CUPS version do you run?
>>In a terminal window, like xterm, run this command:
>>	rpm -q cups
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>>Ever looked how many process user "lp" is running in the system?
>>In a terminal window, like xterm, run this command:
>>	ps auxww | egrep ^lp
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>>How do you print? From a remote windows host via samba? From your
>>local host with a local application, like OpenOffice.org?
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>>Sorry to say, but a weird problem.
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>>Best regards,
>>	Klaus.
>>--
>>Klaus Singvogel
>>SUSE LINUX Products GmbH
>>Maxfeldstr. 5                     E-Mail: Klaus.Singvogel at SuSE.de
>>90409 Nuernberg                   Phone: +49 (0) 911 740530
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