Unhandled error -35

[francisjervis]

Fresh install, Mac OS.

node:events:485
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: spawn ask EAGAIN
    at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:286:19)
    at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:484:16)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:90:21)
Emitted 'error' event on ChildProcess instance at:
    at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:292:12)
    at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:484:16)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:90:21) {
  errno: -35,
  code: 'EAGAIN',
  syscall: 'spawn ask',
  path: 'ask',
  spawnargs: [
    'What models of information gain are used in AI interviewing?',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/1-s2.0-S1071581924000119-main.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/1-s2.0-S2214629624001506-main.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/1-s2.0-S2772424725000125-main.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/10.1080@13645579.2020.1805550.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/10.1177@1525822X19886839.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/10.5445IR1000135146.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/10508785.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/1905.10700v2.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/2002.01862v1.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/2003.02537v1 (1).pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/2024.emnlp-demo.52.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/204189.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/2104.04842v1.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/2309.10187v2.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/2410.01824v1.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/2412.06087v1.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/2502.06494v1.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/2504.02234v1.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/2504.13908v1.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/329-718-2-PB.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/3490100.3516478.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/3543829.3543831.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/9.-holstein-gubrium-2011.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/AbramsWangSongandGalindo_2014_SSCR_ComputerDataRichness.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/Information-Theoretic Foundations of Interview Modeling.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/Kupiec2025AI-Supported-Individual-Interviews-Opportunities-and-Threats-for-Evaluation-6.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/Pragmatic_Qual_AI_updated_20250915.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/Qualitative Interviews 2.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/Standardized Survey Interviewing_ Minimizing -- Floyd J_ Fowler, Jr_ and Thomas W_ Mangione -- Applied social research methods series, 18, 2nd_ -- 9780803930926 -- d9859d0193c2435c7c513a77b82ef1b8 -- Anna’s Archive.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/Synthetic_Interlocutors_-_Experiments_with_Generative_AI_to_Prolong_Ethnographic_Encounters.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/[p]Xiao_2021_Let_Me_Ask_You_This-How_Can_A_Voice_Assistnat_Elicit_Explicit_User_Feedback.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/f1000research-13-171244.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/interview-strategies.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/jodie_copley,+20-3+FOHPE+387-F4.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/journal.pone.0316317.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/nihms827467.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/out (4).pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/paper_OSF.pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/ssrn-4974382 (1).pdf',
    '/Users/francis/Desktop/llm interviewing papers/ssrn-5120349.pdf'
  ]
}

Node.js v23.11.0

[logan-markewich]

@francisjervis what system are you running on? Can you try installing with cargo instead?

[logan-markewich]

Also note that ask won't work directly over PDFs, you'll have to pipe them through parse first -- parse some_dir/* | xargs ask "some question"

Looks like this error is resource exhaustion?