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author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2009-07-24 13:58:22 +0200 |
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committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2009-07-24 13:58:22 +0200 |
commit | 2bbdf631f8ef1029558be19bcf8a9176a5932b8b (patch) | |
tree | b68dac2e65bb77c65a2b0d5741f8f7d6220b9e49 | |
parent | 18433c19b690432179e9a0ed83eff611f5cecc67 (diff) |
udev: explain what happened when inotify_add_watch() returned ENOSPC, rhbz #513571
-rw-r--r-- | src/modules/module-udev-detect.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/modules/module-udev-detect.c b/src/modules/module-udev-detect.c index c8ec2bf9..11de1ccb 100644 --- a/src/modules/module-udev-detect.c +++ b/src/modules/module-udev-detect.c @@ -336,8 +336,18 @@ static int setup_inotify(struct userdata *u) { pa_close(u->inotify_fd); u->inotify_fd = -1; - if (saved_errno == ENOENT) + if (saved_errno == ENOENT) { + pa_log_debug("/dev/snd/ is apparently not existing yet, retrying to create inotify watch later."); return 0; + } + + if (saved_errno == ENOSPC) { + pa_log("You apparently ran out of inotify watches, probably because Tracker/Beagle took them all away. " + "I wished people would do their homework first and fix inotify before using it for watching whole " + "directory trees which is something the current inotify is certainly not useful for. " + "Please make sure to drop the Tracker/Beagle guys a line complaining about their broken use of inotify."); + return 0; + } pa_log("inotify_add_watch() failed: %s", pa_cstrerror(saved_errno)); return -1; |