Re: [Duplicity-talk] [Errno 24] Too many open files

[Douglas Muth]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Robin Smidsrød <address@hidden> wrote:
>  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/GnuPGInterface.py", line 388, in
> _attach_fork_exec
> OSError: [Errno 24] Too many open files
>

You're running out of file descriptors.  A potential workaround can be
found here:

http://mohanjith.net/blog/2008/02/duplicity-chokes-on-oserror-errno-24.html

As to why Duplicity might have so many files open to begin with, I
cannot say.  I'll leave it to the creator to answer that question. :-)

-- Doug