Kevin Walzer wrote: > Sorry, that was a paraphrase. > > It also said "too many open files" (?) > > Yes, I'm running the latest version--the new build from yesterday's CVS.
Ah, now that's much more informative. That's why it's always important to quote the full, word-for-word text of any error message. Omissions that seem unimportant to you can, to someone more familiar with what's going on, critically change the meaning of the message or give it meaning where it had none before. It's very odd that you're getting that error when writing out the preferences, as Scribus must only open one file to do that. I can only assume it's leaking file handles somewhere else (perhaps font loading/scanning?) and failing silently, so that the prefs write _appears_ to be the first error. Hmm... on current CVS on Linux we have seven files open after start-up with no docs open - three copies of /dev/pts/? for stdin, stdout, and stderr, plus two sockets and two pipes. Hardly earth shattering. Three more are opened with a blank document - all ICC profiles. It doesn't look much like it could be a file handle leakage bug with font scanning, unless it's something Mac OS X specific. Odd. It would be good if you could file a bug on http://bugs.scribus.net/ about this, since that'll help keep it all in one place and avoid putting too much noise on the mailing list. -- Craig Ringer
