Subject: 25.0.50; inotify error message
From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:12:33 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

commit 200c2b10faf298bf65e8b6dbd0cb9ef00b2f95d6 made inotify be
preferred to gnotify.

That has shown that there's something amiss in our inotify
support: my emacs now spams me with

"Error while trying to read file system events"

whenever I run Gnus, making it unusable.

Regards

Robert

In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.39 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.13)
 of 2015-08-24 on rpluim-ubuntu
Repository revision: 0abf56df5de778d02e8acccb2044fcd6e7e4953c
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11701000
System Description:	Ubuntu 15.04

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS
NOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11

Important settings:
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LC_MONETARY: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $LC_TIME: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix