From: Robert Blackstone <blackstone.robert@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Erratic error message
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 12:22:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54A009B0-E69D-4666-BF38-742BD5711409@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1.1411552801.15761.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
On 24 Sep 2014, at 12:00 , 13:42:41 +0200 Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote
>
> On 23 Sep 2014, at 12:51, Robert Blackstone <blackstone.robert@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 23 Sep 2014, at 11:34:45 +0600, Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net> wrote
>>>
>>> Am 2014-09-18 um 01:37 schrieb Robert Blackstone <blackstone.robert@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> I would not know how to make a minimal example that will consistently give the error.
>>>> I had hoped that this text in the error message: ?Attempt to double-free dir node 54467, ignored? would contain some information as to what might be wrong, but apparently it does not.
>>>
>>> Might that mean something like ?too many open files??
>>> Did you try to change you OS?s settings? See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/LilyPond#Too_many_open_files
>>>
>>> Or maybe too many files in a working directory (that containing your files or a temp dir of ConTeXt)?
>>
>> Thanks, Hraban, for your advice.
>> I?ve no idea whether or not the error is connected with ?too many open files?.
>
> It is not. ?dir node? means ?direction node? in this context. Nodes are LuaTeX internal data structure objects.
> Various bits of ConTeXt manipulate these objects, and sometimes the reference counting goes off and one
> whose memory has already been given back to the operating system is asked to release its memory again.
>
> The message is harmless, but it points to a small lua programming error somewhere in the source (either
> by the author or by ConTeXt).
Thanks, Taco.
I will stop worrying about looming disasters.
Best regards,
Robert
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2014-09-17 19:37 ` Robert Blackstone
2014-09-17 21:39 ` Hans Hagen
2014-09-23 5:34 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2014-09-17 10:59 Robert Blackstone
2014-09-17 13:24 ` Hans Hagen
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