Re: ephy-profile-migrator crashing

[Braden McDaniel <braden endoframe com>]

On 2020-07-05 18:06, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 5:22 pm, Braden McDaniel <braden endoframe com> 
> wrote:
> > I am attempting to revive a home directory that's been dormant for 
> > some time.
> >
> > The last version of Epiphany to run on this account would have been 
> > whatever was current about 4 years ago.
> >
> > When I attempt to run a modern version (3.36.2) now, this happens:
> >
> > ---
> > $ epiphany
> >
> > (ephy-profile-migrator:14877): GLib-ERROR **: 21:07:51.325: Creating 
> > pipes for GWakeup: Too many open files
> > Failed to run the migrator process, Web will now abort.
> > ---
> >
> > Any suggestions for debugging this?
>
> Unfortunately I think the answer is strace. I've never been
> comfortable with strace. :( You want to look for calls to open() and
> similar functions to see why the process is opening too many file
> descriptors. It must be opening roughly a thousand different fds,
> which seems really extreme.

I'm seeing a fair number of calls to mmap/mremap.

But I am also rather naïve when it comes to any sort of sophisticated 
usage of strace.

> > Obviously I could blow away the old profile directory and start fresh; 
> > but I'd kinda like to migrate it if possible.
>
> Some of the migrators have been removed over the years, but I think
> most of them will work if we can debug what's going wrong with the
> file descriptor limit. At least, bookmarks/history/passwords should
> all hopefully be able to successfully migrate....

I think bookmarks are all I care about.  History is just that; and most 
of the passwords have changed by now.

Looks like it's time to compile epiphany from source.

--
Braden McDaniel <braden endoframe com>