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No it's not that apparently, if I do sudo and enter that one and there I do ulimit -Hn the limit was changed, it just doesn't change for my normal user even if I specify it just for it.
My
/etc/security/limits.confis like this (everything is commented, just that two lines aren't):Idk if you have anything else in that file, but it could be good to try with only that two uncommented lines and then reboot the computer.
well yea
mine has looked like this for multiple hours and I've rebooted my computer multiple times.
Did you try with 64k instead of 1 million in the file and rebooting? If that doesn't work, then idk what will work.
No, it didn't work, what I did find weird is that I can login as even root or any other even new user and it says 4096 but if I enter the sudo shell it does the number I put in the file.
I found something on reddit.
The link they pointed to
It works! :D Quoting the thing "in /etc/pam.d/login add the line session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so to the bottom then do the same for the file associated with your DM i.e. /etc/pam.d/lightdm"
Oh I found a similar thing in the voidlinux subreddit I should've probably checked reddit idk.
oh yea it's probably something like that, if I go directly to console to login it works like it should, I can't start any DEs like that cuz they're not setup but yea, and I guess the sudo thing works for some weird reason related. Also I think you got like cutoff.