Maximum number of clients reached

aliov · 2010-03-12 10:21:55

Hi all,

I have Arch running on my laptop since a year, recently i started to have a very annoying problem, with few just few X client sometimes i can't open any X program, for example mousepad from the terminal will show:

Maximum number of clients reached
(mousepad:21270): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0

while

xlsclients | wc -l

shows 24 clients? the maximum should be 255!

The only one thing that might be related which i did recently was to install compiz and enabling desktop effects, but i removed them completely including the user configuration files that are left, after that i started to see the problem occasionally.

Any hint?

Pyronhell · 2010-03-15 15:26:03

Having the same problem here, can't init skype or gnome-do. But in my case:

[pyronhell@pyronhell ~]$ xlsclients | wc -l
Maximum number of clients reachedxlsclients:  unable to open display ":0.0"
0

Shows zero :S

I will keep investigating this.

Edit: My specs: Arch 64, asus gtx295, dual-screen

Last edited by Pyronhell (2010-03-15 15:28:44)

aliov · 2010-03-15 15:46:27

Okay, i found the solution myself, recently i started using MinimizeToTrayPlus for thunderbird, it turns out that this addon is buggy for Linux, the author doesn't seem to be familiar with GTK/GLib, after examining the source code seems that he creates a lot of GtkStatusIcon without destroying them after, which cause the server leaks. (problem is in version 1.0.8 for reference).

I reported to him here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2831

Pyronhell · 2010-03-15 15:56:00

I found the problem in my case, it was Google Chrome, I closed it and every program no works I think that it was the flash plugin, but... don't really know tbh.

Pyronhell · 2010-03-16 16:10:31

My problem was chrome, no doubt of it. Have been using firefox since yesterday and no error comes aroud (have tested with google-chrome and chromium, but got the same errors).

warriant · 2010-04-10 07:18:04

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Last edited by warriant (2011-06-06 15:52:41)

beardedlinuxgeek · 2013-02-19 13:33:51

Any updates on this?

After a recent update, when I tried to launch chromium (or google-chrome) via terminal I got a parse error for the file "/usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids"

After I re-installed some related programs

pacman -S usbutils pciutils hwids

I was able to run chromium again, but now I get this max clients error.

Here is the output of xlsclients

$ xlsclients
Maximum number of clients reachedxlsclients:  unable to open display ":0.0"

How can I go about debugging this?

EDIT: The bug is with VLC. When VLC is closed, everything works as expected.

Last edited by beardedlinuxgeek (2013-02-19 13:35:29)

bernarcher · 2013-02-19 13:38:46

beardedlinuxgeek this is a rather old thread so things may have changed in the meantime. Thus do not bump it but open a new thread of your own and link back here for reference. Chances will be better for an answer then.

Closing this one.

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#1 2010-03-12 10:21:55

Maximum number of clients reached

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