inotify_add_watch failed

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Sat Nov 7 08:00:30 PST 2015


> On Nov 7, 2015, at 7:46 AM, probono <probono at puredarwin.org> wrote:
> 
> I keep getting a
> QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed:
> No such file or directory
> message.
> 
> sudo mkdir -p /maps
> makes the message go away.
> 
> Is this a bug? Is it related to the AppImage or also on other builds?
> 
> If you would like to check for yourself:
> 
> sudo strace -f Downloads/Subsurface_4.5.1.122_i386.AppImage 2>&1 | grep inotify
> (...)
> [pid  7214] inotify_add_watch(10, "/maps",
> IN_ATTRIB|IN_MOVED_FROM|IN_MOVED_TO|IN_CREATE|IN_DELETE|IN_DELETE_SELF)
> = 2
> (...)

Clearly another Marble "feature" where it can't figure out it's
data directory and so bravely assumes it must be '/'
Now I need to find this in the Marble sources and disable it.
But I'm pretty sure this isn't something related to the AppImage

/D


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