File descriptor leak when using GDM Chooser in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, when using GDM chooser and XDMCP indirect query, the number of file descriptor used by GDM increase each time the chooser is restarted after a session terminates.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • gdm-2.30.4-23.el6

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