Hi, I'm actually not sure where the error is actually occurring, but the effects are easily reproduced, but not reproducable. By not reproducable, I mean the error does not occur exactly in the same "spot" but it always happens.
I have my CD collection ripped to flac, so I have >4000 flacs. I wrote this script that will automatically encode the flacs into mp3 or ogg while transferring all the metaflac info over to id3 tag of the mp3. Generally, the script works like this: Get list of flac for each flac file: Store metaflac_info in an information class os.system(decode flac using /usr/bin/flac) os.system(encode mp3 and embed info stored in class) Now, this script will go on for some time but after 40-100 files the decode will fail with /usr/bin/flac reporting an error in reading the flac file. .flac: ERROR while decoding data state = FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_READ_FRAME The script fails to decode any more flac files until the vm crashes from having too many open files. The flac file is perfectly fine, though. Restarting the script, the flac file that "crashed" decodes/encodes just fine. Analysis by 'flac -t' or 'flac -a' show a correct flac file. How ever, if I try to decode a "bad" flac file in parallel with the script after the script has "failed", I can't decode the flac and get the same error. Yet, I can do 'flac -a' or 'flac -t' on the file and it reports 100% good in parallel to the "dead" script. It is not a disk space issue as I've checked. No stray tempfiles are created since the command to create them fails when opening the flac file. I have tried invoking garbage collection after a set number of file and sleeping the thread after running into the error, but neither worked. The most likely culprit is my script, but it seems too simple to "die" like that. I don't think it's a problem with the 'flac' application. Another possible culprit is a python VM issue that I am not aware of. Any advice would be appreciated, Kenny Debian Linux, i686 Python 2.3 (2.3.5-2) and earlier versions of 2.3 flac 1.1.1 (1.1.1-5) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
