Re: errors converting to PDF ["can't allocate region"]

[SlyFox <ivan.clinical-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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M1 Mac. 

I tried this:for f in *.md; do pandoc "$f" -o "${f%.md}.pdf"; done

But I get an error:

pandoc(45574,0x207810e00) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in 
malloc_error_break to debug

pandoc: pdflatex: createProcess: runInteractiveProcess: exec: resource 
exhausted (Cannot allocate memory)

On Sunday, July 25, 2021 at 7:22:06 PM UTC+4 instan...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:

> I appreciate this isn't the simple solution that you might be hoping for, 
> but I've had success in getting pandoc to run reliably in a docker 
> container.
>
> I'm using it to build my thesis, and I created a template project here 
> https://github.com/instantiator/markdown-thesis-builder which contains a 
> sample Dockerfile, and the build script that uses pandoc.
>
> I hope it's helpful - I found it's the only way to reliably run pandoc on 
> my M1 Mac.
>
> On Friday, 23 July 2021 at 15:53:16 UTC+1 allank...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:
>
>> Great to find this posting.
>>
>> I've been having this problem ever since I got a M1 MacBook Air with 
>> BigSur at the start of the year.
>>
>> I couldn't find any references when I encountered it and put it down to 
>> something to do with BigSur and ARM.
>> I've reinstalled Pandoc and PdfLatex several time but never resolved.
>> I've just don't another reinstall and then stumbled on John's fix which 
>> works for me - thanks!
>>
>> Something I noticed in the process: a really small file will process 
>> correctly:
>>
>> # Hello world
>>
>> ## Hello world
>>
>> ### Hello world
>>
>> Hello world
>>
>> pandoc hello.txt -o hello.pdf 
>>
>> Works.
>> You can add a few more paragraphs (approx 5) to hello.txt before I get 
>> the error - which hints that there is some actual resource exhausted 
>> happening. But why would that be fixed by specifying the path? Dunno.
>>
>> Thanks for the fix, hope we can find a solution before long
>>
>> allan
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, 9 June 2021 at 16:40:37 UTC+1 John MacFarlane wrote:
>>
>>> "Jason Davies" <ophi...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes: 
>>>
>>> > Hi folks, 
>>> > 
>>> > I just tried to convert three short Word files one at a time; one 
>>> worked 
>>> > fine but two gave errors like this: 
>>> > 
>>> > pandoc(24405,0x209984e00) malloc: can't allocate region 
>>> > :*** mach_vm_map(size=1048576, flags: 100) failed (error 
>>> code=268435465) 
>>> > pandoc(24405,0x209984e00) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in 
>>> > malloc_error_break to debug 
>>> > pandoc: pdflatex: createProcess: runInteractiveProcess: exec: resource 
>>> > exhausted (Cannot allocate memory) 
>>> > 
>>>
>>> I just got an M1 mac, and I ran into this same error. 
>>>
>>> I found that if I fully specify the pdflatex path, it works: 
>>>
>>> pandoc -o my.pdf --pdf-engine=/Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex 
>>>
>>> It's a bit mysterious why this should be needed, since 
>>> `which pdflatex` returns this path! 
>>> And running pandoc with --verbose shows that the PATH is 
>>> correctly passed through to the process running pdflatex. 
>>>
>>> Anyone have any ideas? AT least this gives a workaround... 
>>>
>>

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