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 jim.ruxton@gmail.com 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
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