Firstly, I apologize for having no real details on this.
I'm running Debian Unstable, and seemingly randomly, I'll go to run a
program or save a file or what not, and I'll get an error to the
effect of "too many open files on system". In one case, I rebooted to
try and solve this, and within 5 minutes of starting X, it started
that again.
That brings me to the next part - Sometimes (often), it seems that
it's a simple case of shutting down another program. In the
aforementioned case, it was Internet Explorer running under Crossover
Office. Another one was when "ls" returned "Segmentation Fault" while
I ran "tail -f" on the apache error log. If I shut down tail, it
worked fine. Started tailing again, and again "ls" would Seg Fault,
but after a reboot, it's never happened again.
In a bit of frustration, I didn't think to write down what file (ugh),
but some commands and programs would say that a certian library
couldn't be opened. That also is usually soved by shutting down a
program that seemingly has nothing to do with the one that's reporting
the problem.
Again, I apologize for having next to no *real* information on this
problem, but I will indeed post back with some now that it's become a
problem rather than a minor annoyance. Any ideas are appreciated.