On Sat, 26 May 2007 18:08:19 +0200 (CEST)
kamel derouiche <derouiche_dz@yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Hi,,
> 
> when I launch Dev-help I got the message below : 
> 
> GLib: Cannot convert message: Conversion from
> character set 'UTF-8' to '646' is not supported
> 
> (devhelp:4883): Devhelp-WARNING **: Failed to read
> '/usr/pkg/share/gtk-doc/html/poppler/poppler.devhelp2':
> Too many open files
> 

A number of GUI applications, with large numbers of shared libraries,
have that problem.  Use ulimit to increase the value.  I have

	ulimit -n 256

in my .profile (on, admittedly, a machine with lots of RAM).


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb