Crash when resuming or creating a new session

[kahilah]

2. Issues with the Zellij UI / behavior / crash

Basic information

OS: centos 8
terminal: gnome-terminal
zellij --version: 0.40.1

Issue description

I have been using zellij for a week now (with default settings, no plugins etc.) and started experiencing these crashes quite quickly. Common for each crash has been that they happened when either 1) resuming a session or 2) creating a new session.

Zellij has been running for several hours whenever this crash happens. No other common factors has been identified.

Crash results in following error message

  × Thread 'wasm' panicked.
  ├─▶ Originating Thread(s)
  │   	1. main_thread: SwitchSession
  │   	2. ipc_server: NewClient
  │   	3. screen_thread: NewTab
  │   	4. plugin_thread: NewTab
  │   
  ├─▶ At .cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/async-global-executor-2.3.1/src/init.rs:39:18
  ╰─▶ cannot spawn executor threads: Os { code: 11, kind: WouldBlock, message: "Resource temporarily unavailable" }
  help: If you are seeing this message, it means that something went wrong.
        
        -> To get additional information, check the log at: /tmp/zellij-43927/zellij-log/zellij.log
        -> To see a backtrace next time, reproduce the error with: RUST_BACKTRACE=1 zellij [...]
        -> To help us fix this, please open an issue: https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/issues

And tmp file is filled with equivalent messages to this:
ERROR |zellij_server::background| 2024-10-09 21:55:09.611 [async-std/runti] [.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/zellij-server-0.40.1/src/background_jobs.rs:443]: Failed to read created stamp of resurrection file: Error { kind: Unsupported, message: "creation time is not available for the filesystem" }

Minimal reproduction

Haven't been able to reproduce in deterministic manner.

Other relevant information

Error message has been similar whether the crash happens when opening an old session or creating a new one.

Restarting zellij results in the same error message and I need to kill zellij processes to enable restart.

[kahilah]

I'd like to add a comment that during the past 2 weeks I have been able to mitigate crashes by keeping the number of sessions minimal 2-5 and actively deleting sessions that I haven't touched for days.