From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#21337: 25.0.50; inotify error message Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 19:34:44 +0300 Message-ID: <83a8tghcgr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k2skyjf2.fsf@gmail.com> <83d1ychefg.fsf@gnu.org> <87oahw8xmv.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440434448 6820 80.91.229.3 (24 Aug 2015 16:40:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:40:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 21337@debbugs.gnu.org To: Robert Pluim Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 24 18:40:38 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTunW-00007e-1O for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:40:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55352 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTunV-0006Ob-6M for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:40:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46010) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTuj8-0006jH-Eq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:36:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTuj5-0007Kz-1b for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:36:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:44914) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTuj4-0007Kc-MW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:36:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTuj4-00042r-8E for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:36:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:36:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 21337 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 21337-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B21337.144043414015523 (code B ref 21337); Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:36:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 21337) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Aug 2015 16:35:40 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37124 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTuii-00042J-Dx for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:35:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:56136) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTuie-000425-EO for 21337@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:35:38 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NTL00J00HUC7Y00@mtaout27.012.net.il> for 21337@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 19:31:54 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NTL00IBCHX63V10@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 19:31:54 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87oahw8xmv.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:105775 Archived-At: > From: Robert Pluim > Cc: 21337@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:22:16 +0200 > > >> That has shown that there's something amiss in our inotify > >> support: my emacs now spams me with > >> > >> "Error while trying to read file system events" > >> > >> whenever I run Gnus, making it unusable. > > > > Please provide more details. Do you have global-auto-revert-mode > > enabled, per chance? > > I do, but I've had that enabled for at least the last 6 months. I > went away on vacation, re-pulled & re-built, and got the inotify > errors. Relevant .emacs: > > '(dired-auto-revert-buffer (quote dired-directory-changed-p)) > '(global-auto-revert-mode t) > '(global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers t) > > although disabling those 3 makes no difference to the behaviour. Then I guess the next step is to set debug-on-error non-nil and show the backtrace, so that we see what Lisp code errors out. > I've double checked my emacs build was using gnotify before. > > It's always possible that inotify is trying to access some > non-existent file, but without a filename that's hard to determine. Emacs doesn't watch files, it watches directories.