GNU bug report logs - #21337
25.0.50; inotify error message

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:13:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 21361

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 21337 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21337: 25.0.50; inotify error message
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:52:19 +0300

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:12:33 +0200
> 
> 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.

Please provide more details.  Do you have global-auto-revert-mode
enabled, per chance?
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