diff --git a/src/mirall/application.cpp b/src/mirall/application.cpp
index 2c4fe7a9b8..146ae6b14c 100644
--- a/src/mirall/application.cpp
+++ b/src/mirall/application.cpp
@@ -48,10 +48,6 @@
 #include <QNetworkProxy>
 #include <QNetworkProxyFactory>
 
-#ifdef Q_OS_LINUX
-#include <dlfcn.h>
-#endif
-
 namespace Mirall {
 
 // application logging handler.
@@ -105,16 +101,6 @@ Application::Application(int &argc, char **argv) :
     //no need to waste time;
     if ( _helpOnly ) return;
 
-#ifdef Q_OS_LINUX
-        // HACK: bump the refcount for libgnutls by calling dlopen()
-        // so gnutls, which is an dependency of libneon on some linux
-        // distros, and does not cleanup it's FDs properly, does
-        // not get unloaded. This works around a FD exhaustion crash
-        // (#154). We are not using gnutls at all and it's fine
-        // if loading fails, so no error handling is performed here.
-        dlopen("libgnutls.so", RTLD_LAZY|RTLD_NODELETE);
-#endif
-
     connect( this, SIGNAL(messageReceived(QString)), SLOT(slotParseOptions(QString)));
     connect( Logger::instance(), SIGNAL(guiLog(QString,QString)),
              this, SLOT(slotShowTrayMessage(QString,QString)));