no response about "watches limit" from inotify

[gumieri]

O.S.: Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS

Monday the Guard stopped responding modifications of files, there was no sign of error / exception.
The only update has been Git for version 1.8.5.4, I suspected that the problem would be in inotify.

I solved the problem by increasing the "max_user_watches" with the command:

sudo sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches=16364

I do not know if anyone else has gone through this problem, but it was a bit costly find out what was happening.

[thibaudgg]

Have you try to ignore unwatched files? .git folder is ignored by default: https://github.com/guard/listen/blob/master/lib/listen/silencer.rb#L6

[gumieri]

I mentioned git because it was the only update on my environment and could have interfered with inotify, since I have not updated any gem project.

But the major complication was the Guard / Listen not given any feedback that he was unable to use inotify.

[thibaudgg]

Ok I see, a PR to improve the feedback would be much appreciated. Thanks!

[e2]

This was fixed in:
4e245ce

(Celluloid caught the abort with the INOTIFY warning and ... didn't ... show ... anything...)