Error related to BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)

[Abhi genobio]

Dear Users,

I got this error while executing taxa_summary.
Can You please guide me in rectifying such errors.

plot_taxa_summary.py -i taxa_plots/otu_table_L2.txt,taxa_plots/otu_table_L3.txt,taxa_plots/otu_table_L4.txt,taxa_plots/otu_table_L5.txt,taxa_plots/otu_table_L6.txt,taxa_plots/otu_table_L7.txt -o taxa_plots/taxa_summary_plots/
Command returned exit status: 1
Stdout:

Stderr
can't invoke "event" command:  application has been destroyed
    while executing
"event generate $w <<ThemeChanged>>"
    (procedure "ttk::ThemeChanged" line 6)
    invoked from within
"ttk::ThemeChanged"
can't invoke "event" command:  application has been destroyed
    while executing
"event generate $w <<ThemeChanged>>"
    (procedure "ttk::ThemeChanged" line 6)
    invoked from within
"ttk::ThemeChanged"
X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  53 (X_CreatePixmap)
  Serial number of failed request:  1972
  Current serial number in output stream:  1974


Config file summary is as follows
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System information
==================
         Platform:    linux2
   Python version:    2.7.3 (default, Dec 18 2014, 19:10:20)  [GCC 4.6.3]
Python executable:    /usr/bin/python

QIIME default reference information
===================================
For details on what files are used as QIIME's default references, see here:
 https://github.com/biocore/qiime-default-reference/releases/tag/0.1.3

Dependency versions
===================
          QIIME library version:    1.9.1
           QIIME script version:    1.9.1
qiime-default-reference version:    0.1.3
                  NumPy version:    1.9.2
                  SciPy version:    0.15.1
                 pandas version:    0.16.1
             matplotlib version:    1.4.3
            biom-format version:    2.1.4
                   h5py version:    2.5.0 (HDF5 version: 1.8.4)
                   qcli version:    0.1.1
                   pyqi version:    0.3.2
             scikit-bio version:    0.2.3
                 PyNAST version:    1.2.2
                Emperor version:    0.9.51
                burrito version:    0.9.1
       burrito-fillings version:    0.1.1
              sortmerna version:    SortMeRNA version 2.0, 29/11/2014
              sumaclust version:    SUMACLUST Version 1.0.00
                  swarm version:    Swarm 1.2.19 [Jun 15 2015 12:30:08]
                          gdata:    Installed.

QIIME config values
===================
For definitions of these settings and to learn how to configure QIIME, see here:
 http://qiime.org/install/qiime_config.html
 http://qiime.org/tutorials/parallel_qiime.html

                     blastmat_dir:    /data/ngs/Programs/qiime_software/blast-2.2.22-release/data
      pick_otus_reference_seqs_fp:    /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/qiime_default_reference/gg_13_8_otus/rep_set/97_otus.fasta
                         sc_queue:    all.q
      topiaryexplorer_project_dir:    None
     pynast_template_alignment_fp:    /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/qiime_default_reference/gg_13_8_otus/rep_set_aligned/85_otus.fasta
                  cluster_jobs_fp:    start_parallel_jobs.py
pynast_template_alignment_blastdb:    None
assign_taxonomy_reference_seqs_fp:    /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/qiime_default_reference/gg_13_8_otus/rep_set/97_otus.fasta
                     torque_queue:    friendlyq
                    jobs_to_start:    1
                       slurm_time:    None
            denoiser_min_per_core:    50
assign_taxonomy_id_to_taxonomy_fp:    /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/qiime_default_reference/gg_13_8_otus/taxonomy/97_otu_taxonomy.txt
                         temp_dir:    /home/abhinandita.dash/temp/
                     slurm_memory:    None
                      slurm_queue:    None
                      blastall_fp:    /data/ngs/Programs/qiime_software/blast-2.2.22-release/bin/blastall
                 seconds_to_sleep:    1

Thank You.
Abhi

[Jessica Metcalf]

Hi Abhi, 

Please see this Forum string about this topic.  Updating your Matplot lib to version 1.4.2 may do the trick.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/qiime-forum/can$27t$20invoke$20%22event%22$20command$3A$20$20application$20has$20been$20destroyed$20$20$20$20$20while$20executing/qiime-forum/-erpm3BWvm0/rMmwYXbGGcMJ

Thanks,

Jess

[Abhi genobio]

Dear Users,

I changed matplotlib version to 1.3.1. I am no more getting the theme error

Stderr
can't invoke "event" command:  application has been destroyed
    while executing
"event generate $w <<ThemeChanged>>"
    (procedure "ttk::ThemeChanged" line 6)

but still this error is not rectified

 Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  53 (X_CreatePixmap)

  Serial number of failed request:  1768
  Current serial number in output stream:  1770

Can anyone help me?

Thanks
Abhi

[Colin Brislawn]

Looks like you may be running out of memory.

How much RAM does your computer or Virtual Machine have?

Colin