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

[Lewis Westbury <instantiator-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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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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