Re: [gamin] Re: Building gamin 0.1.6

[John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org>]

What distro are you running? How customized is it?

On Tue, 2005-25-10 at 21:08 +1300, Mark Carey wrote:
> On 10/25/05, John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Inotify isn't being used for your home directory. What FS type is it?
> 
> ext3 via nfs, I dont think that I did anything that overly touched
> /home/mark during the original log and have made nautilus poke around
> in there a bit to get some better info on /home/mark see
> http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/markcare/linux/gamin/2/new-gam-client-debug.log
> and http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/markcare/linux/gamin/2/new-gam-server-test.log
> if that helps any.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > The above looks like a good run of gam_server.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > So when you are running gamin with debug option on, you don't get this
> > error?
> 
> Correct, and with inofity backend enabled I dont have any file
> alteration monitoring working in both DEBUG and non-DEBUG mode. The
> dnotify backend works.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > From what I can tell, the error isn't directly related to inotify. When
> > inotify is enabled, a different poll backend is used for directories
> > that we don't want to use inotify on. My hunch is that the error is in
> > there.
> 
> Ok I am open to trying anything you sugest to provide any information
> to help corner the bug.
> 
> > Could you narrow down which application is receiving the fam errors? The
> > errors in the X log are from FAM clients (I think).
> 
> The only FAM clients that I am running are gnome-vfs-2.12.1.1 and
> nautilus-2.12.1 as part of Gnome 2.12.1 (GARNOME)
> 
> > What filesystems are you using ? Inotify isn't being used for anything
> > inside your home directory, so inotify is basically watching some system
> > files (like /etc/mtab).
> 
> $ cat /etc/mtab
> /dev/hda9 / ext3 rw 0 0
> proc /proc proc rw 0 0
> sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
> /dev/hda6 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
> /dev/hda10 /tmp ext3 rw 0 0
> /dev/hda11 /var ext3 rw 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=4,mode=620 0 0
> shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
> usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,devgid=14,devmode=0660 0 0
> 192.168.10.254:/home /home nfs
> rw,_netdev,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,addr=192.168.10.254 0 0
> /dev/sda /media/usbdisk vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=mark 0 0
> 
> Hope this helps, let us know if you need anything more.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark Carey