From: cascardo@debian.org   
      
   Package: motion   
   Version: 4.7.0-3   
   Severity: critical   
   Justification: causes serious data loss   
      
   Dear Maintainer,   
      
   	Sometimes, motion stops recording. When I inspect the process,   
   	it has open files pointing to old recordings (by looking at   
   	/proc//fd/).   
   	When running strace, there are plenty of EMFILES errors.   
      
   	Restarting the process makes it work again. But by the time, the   
   	issue is noticed, lots of recordings have been lost, which is a   
   	serious data loss.   
      
   	I cannot tell what leads to this situation. My only guess would   
   	be that I have a cronjob that removes old files (more than 30   
   	days old).   
      
   	I would like to close saying that I appreciate the work done in   
   	maintaining the package.   
      
   	Thanks.   
   	Cascardo.   
      
   -- System Information:   
   Debian Release: 13.3   
     APT prefers stable-updates   
     APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,   
   'stable')   
   Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)   
      
   Kernel: Linux 6.12.57+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)   
   Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set   
   Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash   
   Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)   
   LSM: AppArmor: enabled   
      
   Versions of packages motion depends on:   
   ii  adduser                3.152   
   ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.91   
   ii  libavcodec61           7:7.1.3-0+deb13u1   
   ii  libavdevice61          7:7.1.3-0+deb13u1   
   ii  libavformat61          7:7.1.3-0+deb13u1   
   ii  libavutil59            7:7.1.3-0+deb13u1   
   ii  libc6                  2.41-12+deb13u1   
   ii  libjpeg62-turbo        1:2.1.5-4   
   ii  libmariadb3            1:11.8.3-0+deb13u1   
   ii  libmicrohttpd12t64     1.0.1-4   
   ii  libpq5                 17.7-0+deb13u1   
   ii  libsqlite3-0           3.46.1-7   
   ii  libswscale8            7:7.1.3-0+deb13u1   
      
   Versions of packages motion recommends:   
   ii  ffmpeg  7:7.1.3-0+deb13u1   
      
   Versions of packages motion suggests:   
   pn  default-mysql-client     
   pn  postgresql-client        
      
   -- Configuration Files:   
   /etc/motion/camera1-dist.conf [file not found]   
   /etc/motion/camera2-dist.conf [file not found]   
   /etc/motion/camera3-dist.conf [file not found]   
   /etc/motion/camera4-dist.conf [file not found]   
   /etc/motion/motion.conf changed [not included]   
      
   -- debconf information excluded   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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