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An error when run command 'npm start'

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ERROR watch EMFILE 2015-07-08 20:07 node24221 FSEventStreamStart: register_with_server: ERROR: f2d_register_rpc() => (null) (-21) {“code”:“EMFILE”,“errno”:“EMFILE”,“syscall”:“watch”} 2015-07-08 20:07 node24221 FSEventStreamStart: register_with_server: ERROR: f2d_register_rpc() => (null) (-21) 2015-07-08 20:07 node24221 FSEventStreamStart: register_with_server: ERROR: f2d_register_rpc() => (null) (-21) Error: watch EMFILE at errnoException (evalmachine.<anonymous>:1030:11) at FSWatcher.start (evalmachine.<anonymous>:1062:11) at Object.fs.watch (evalmachine.<anonymous>:1087:11) at NodeWatcher.watchdir (/Users/chaos/facebook/react-native/node_modules/sane/src/node_watcher.js:144:20) at Walker.<anonymous> (/Users/chaos/facebook/react-native/node_modules/sane/src/node_watcher.js:351:12) at Walker.emit (events.js:98:17) at /Users/chaos/facebook/react-native/node_modules/sane/node_modules/walker/lib/walker.js:69:16 at ReaddirReq.Req.done (/Users/chaos/facebook/react-native/node_modules/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:141:5) at ReaddirReq.done (/Users/chaos/facebook/react-native/node_modules/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:88:22) at Object.oncomplete (evalmachine.<anonymous>:107:15)

See http://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/troubleshooting.html 2015-07-08 20:07 node24221 for common problems and solutions. FSEventStreamStart: register_with_server: ERROR: f2d_register_rpc() => (null) (-21) 2015-07-08 20:07 node24221 FSEventStreamStart: register_with_server: ERROR: f2d_register_rpc() => (null) (-21) 2015-07-08 20:07 node24221 FSEventStreamStart: register_with_server: ERROR: f2d_register_rpc() => (null) (-21) 2015-07-08 20:07 node24221 FSEventStreamStart: register_with_server: ERROR: f2d_register_rpc() => (null) (-21) 2015-07-08 20:07 node24221 FSEventStreamStart: register_with_server: ERROR: f2d_register_rpc() => (null) (-21) 2015-07-08 20:07 node24221 FSEventStreamStart: register_with_server: ERROR: f2d_register_rpc() => (null) (-21) 2015-07-08 20:07 node24221 FSEventStreamStart: register_with_server: ERROR: f2d_register_rpc() => (null) (-21) 2015-07-08 20:07 node24221 FSEventStreamStart: register_with_server: ERROR: f2d_register_rpc() => (null) (-21) 2015-07-08 20:07 node24221 FSEventStreamStart: register_with_server: ERROR: f2d_register_rpc() => (null) (-21) 2015-07-08 20:07 node24221 FSEventStreamStart: register_with_server: ERROR: f2d_register_rpc() => (null) (-21)

evalmachine.<anonymous>:438 2015-07-08 20:07 node24221 FSEventStreamStart: register_with_server: ERROR: f2d_register_rpc() => (null) (-21) return binding.open(pathModule._makeLong(path), stringToFlags(flags), mode); ^ 2015-07-08 20:07 node24221 FSEventStreamStart: register_with_server: ERROR: f2d_register_rpc() => (null) (-21) 2015-07-08 20:07 node24221 FSEventStreamStart: register_with_server: ERROR: f2d_register_rpc() => (null) (-21) 2015-07-08 20:07 node24221 FSEventStreamStart: register_with_server: ERROR: f2d_register_rpc() => (null) (-21) 2015-07-08 20:07 node24221 FSEventStreamStart: register_with_server: ERROR: f2d_register_rpc() => (null) (-21) 2015-07-08 20:07 node24221 FSEventStreamStart: register_with_server: ERROR: f2d_register_rpc() => (null) (-21) 2015-07-08 20:07 node24221 FSEventStreamStart: register_with_server: ERROR: f2d_register_rpc() => (null) (-21) Error: EMFILE, too many open files ‘/Users/chaos/.babel.json’ at Object.fs.openSync (evalmachine.<anonymous>:438:18) at Object.fs.writeFileSync (evalmachine.<anonymous>:977:15) at process.save (/Users/chaos/facebook/react-native/node_modules/babel-core/lib/babel/api/register/cache.js:36:19) at process.emit (events.js:95:17) at process.exit (node.js:711:17) at process.req.rawBody (/Users/chaos/facebook/react-native/packager/packager.js:151:11) at process.emit (events.js:95:17) at process._fatalException (node.js:272:26)

npm ERR! Darwin 14.4.0 npm ERR! argv “node” “/usr/local/bin/npm” “start” npm ERR! node v0.10.33 npm ERR! npm v2.1.8 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! react-native@0.6.0 start: ./packager/packager.sh npm ERR! Exit status 7 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the react-native@0.6.0 start script ‘./packager/packager.sh’. npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the react-native package, npm ERR! not with npm itself. npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system: npm ERR! ./packager/packager.sh npm ERR! You can get their info via: npm ERR! npm owner ls react-native npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request: npm ERR! /Users/chaos/facebook/react-native/Examples/SampleApp/npm-debug.log