Description of problem: Try to start tomboy, and watch it fail Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tomboy-0.4.1-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm How reproducible: 100% when it happens Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to launch Tomboy 2. Notice the error message Note this only happens "occasionally". I don't think this is a tomboy fault, more an inotify fault. What's taking up all the inotify watches? Or how do I tell? Actual results: tomboy NoteManager created with note path "/home/byte/.tomboy". Unhandled Exception: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The per-user inotify watches limit of 8192 has been reached. If you're experiencing problems with your application, increase that limit in /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches. at System.IO.InotifyWatcher.StartMonitoringDirectory (System.IO.InotifyData data, Boolean justcreated) [0x00000] at System.IO.InotifyWatcher.StartDispatching (System.IO.FileSystemWatcher fsw) [0x00000] at System.IO.FileSystemWatcher.Start () [0x00000] at System.IO.FileSystemWatcher.set_EnableRaisingEvents (Boolean value) [0x00000] at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.IO.FileSystemWatcher:set_EnableRaisingEvents (bool) at Tomboy.PluginManager..ctor (System.String plugins_dir) [0x00000] at Tomboy.NoteManager.CreatePluginManager () [0x00000] at Tomboy.NoteManager..ctor (System.String directory, System.String backup_directory) [0x00000] at Tomboy.NoteManager..ctor (System.String directory) [0x00000] at Tomboy.Tomboy.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000] Expected results: Tomboy starts Additional info: Is there a way to tell whats eating up all the inotify watches? Running inotifywatch also, doesn't help since all the watches are used up. Is 8192 too small? This is a fresh FC-6 installation. Feel free to reassign to kernel if its more appropriate there...
Hi, We no longer support Fedora Core 6 and I am currently trying to get my open bug count down to a more manageable state. I'm going to close this bug as WONTFIX. If this issue is still a concern for you, would you mind trying to reproduce on a supported version of Fedora and reopening? (this is a mass message)