how does someone fix something like that? I am running a program that changes background images, now I am using a linked list to do this, and not a bash script, which the bash script has never ever gave me this Maximum number of clients reached Segmentation fault.

so I am guessing it is somehow linked to the link list (pun intended).

how do I deal with such a thing if it is going to be giving me this error blow up and quit?

what is this max number of clients for a changing desktop images for?

its broke I cannot even use my normal desktop image setter - I just keep getting that same error then boom! seg fault.

Googled it and it looks like I am not the only one that has experienced this one, but I'm confused on this one. I see no fixes -- work around but see some post that say solved but not how they did it.

I don't know anything about the situation here, but maybe your program has a bug in it. Maybe it is "racing" uncontrollably and saturating the service that it is talking to. There is usually a "give and take, start and finish" protocol that must be observed, and perhaps your program has that sort of bug in it.

Googling for "Maximum number of clients reached" (which is definitely being thrown by X) got me... a lot of recent links that I didn't bother reading. You can google it yourself. Here are a couple of hits I got:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...z/+bug/1518411
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=188052

For the segfaults involving your linked list, you'd debug them using a procedure like this.

http://www.cprogramming.com/debugging/segfaults.html

The relationship between the two, if there is one, would be that the X error confused your program to the point where it segfaulted. So solve the "Maximum number of clients reached" first. Honestly, I'd start by turning the box off and on again and seeing if it goes away.

yeah google here is saturated with this seg fault.