Re: [gamin] Re: Building gamin 0.1.6

[Mark Carey <mark carey gmail com>]

This machine is a 2nd Generation Linux From Scratch box, built from
the ground up .....

If you need a list of library versions etc I can happily supply.

Regards,

Mark Carey

On 10/26/05, John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org> wrote:
> 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
>