myst start crashes periodically #2500
Description
Description
After the MyST preview server (myst start) has been running for a some minutes (5-30 minutes I'd say), it reliably crashes with:
💥 Triggered full project load and site rebuild
/home/mfisher/Projects/geojupyter/workshop-open-source-geospatial/.pixi/envs/default/lib/python3.14/site-packages/mystmd_py/myst.cjs:100829
cont.watcher.close();
^
TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'close')
at /home/mfisher/Projects/geojupyter/workshop-open-source-geospatial/.pixi/envs/default/lib/python3.14/site-packages/mystmd_py/myst.cjs:100829:24
at /home/mfisher/Projects/geojupyter/workshop-open-source-geospatial/.pixi/envs/default/lib/python3.14/site-packages/mystmd_py/myst.cjs:102270:37
at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
at FSWatcher._closeFile (/home/mfisher/Projects/geojupyter/workshop-open-source-geospatial/.pixi/envs/default/lib/python3.14/site-packages/mystmd_py/myst.cjs:102270:17)
at FSWatcher._closePath (/home/mfisher/Projects/geojupyter/workshop-open-source-geospatial/.pixi/envs/default/lib/python3.14/site-packages/mystmd_py/myst.cjs:102259:14)
at FSWatcher._remove (/home/mfisher/Projects/geojupyter/workshop-open-source-geospatial/.pixi/envs/default/lib/python3.14/site-packages/mystmd_py/myst.cjs:102251:16)
at listener2 (/home/mfisher/Projects/geojupyter/workshop-open-source-geospatial/.pixi/envs/default/lib/python3.14/site-packages/mystmd_py/myst.cjs:100955:24)
Node.js v24.9.0
Proposed solution
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Additional notes
This has occurred for me for several releases. I'm not sure how far back, but I'd guess at least back to 1.6.0. I thought I'd already opened an issue for this! Apologies for not doing so earlier.