> I guess it doesn't close the file after playing I guess I can improve it then?
Em qua., 26 de nov. de 2025 às 23:04, Jim Ruxton <[email protected]> escreveu: > > I figured out what the issue below was caused by. Following on > what IOhannes said it turned out there were too many opened files. To play > files with the Else player~ object I was banging open a file each time > it played. I guess it doesn't close the file after playing and I only had > to bang the player~ object rather than the open command again. It would be > nice if possible to print out a message to the console saying the file is > already open to avoid such crashes . Anyway all is good now. Thanks for all > the suggestions of what may be causing the issue > > >> On 26/11/2025 21:06, Jim Ruxton wrote: >> > I am using Pd 0.56.0 (Linux/amd64 - single precision) version of Pure >> Data >> > on Ubuntu 24.04 and having a strange issue I'm having trouble tracking >> > down. Wondering if anyone has come across this issue and found a >> solution. >> > I have a patch that I am working on and after working on it for a while >> I >> > can no longer save it . If I open that patch, make a quick change and >> save >> > it, that works fine. After editing it for a while doing simple things >> like >> > adding comments I can go to the file menu and save it, though it >> appears to >> > work it doesn't actually save the file. The way I know it hasn't saved >> the >> > file is if I then go to close the file , the prompt comes up asking if I >> > want to save the file even though I just did save it. Also at that >> point I >> > can't quit the program. It again asks if I want to save the program and >> I >> > say yes but it doesn't quit. I then quit it in the console with cntrl c. >> > And when reopening see that it hasn't saved my changes. The patch is >> > working fine before and after I try to save and close it. Except there >> is a >> > strange anomaly which is that I am playing short audio wav files using >> Else >> > player and each time it goes to play the file there is a message in the >> > console saying it can't find the file. Even though it plays the file it >> > says it can't find. I don't have other instances of PD open or other >> panels >> > that would prevent me from closing PD. It is a very strange issue I've >> > never seen but it's driving me a bit bonkers as it appears pretty random >> > when it decides it can no longer be saved. Any thoughts on what could be >> > causing this strangeness? >> > >> my guess would be that your Pd process has run out of file-handles. >> >> to check, get the PID of the pd process ("ps aux | grep -w pd"), and >> then use `lsof -p $PID`, or simply "ls -lha /proc/$PID/fd". >> >> to see the allowed number of simultaneously open files, use "prlimit -p >> $PID", or simply "cat /proc/$PID/limits". >> >> most likely a bug in some external, that opens files but doesn't close >> them (i would have expected this to pop up earlier/more often, if it was >> a problem in Pd itself) >> >> gamdsr >> IOhannes >> > > --- > [email protected] - the Pure Data mailinglist > > https://lists.iem.at/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/JBFZGT6D33GFRQOKPONBR6IVLB7Z2WAL/ > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.iem.at/
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