Need to manually run `sysctl -p` every time for Dropbox to work

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Lately, every time I boot I need to close Dropbox, which autostarts on system boot but fails to sync due to fs.inotify.max_user_watches being too low. I have it already set in /etc/sysctl.conf but apparently sysctl won’t invoke it before Dropbox is launched, so I have to do it manually, every time, by stopping Dropbox, then running

sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf

then launching Dropbox again.

Is there a way to fix this?

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You really do not provide a lot of information for us to go off of right now. We don’t know your DE, Kernel or anything.

ls /etc/sysctl.d/

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right, sorry about that. But increasing the value in /etc/sysctl.d/50-max_user_watches.conf solved it. Thanks!

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You should instead delete that file and the sysctl.conf file you created. If you told me that you were running KDE and the approximate time you installed your system, I could’ve immediately pointed out what the issue was. How? Because of this.

Also, why did you give yourself the solution tag :thinking:

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Yes, I’m running KDE and installed it in mid-june this year.

If you point out the issue I’ll be more than glad to hear it : ). I don’t quite understand the reason (I’m not that proficient, just a regular user).

I tagged my post as solution to pinpoint how I fixed it. Would you please provide some details so I can tag yours instead?

This is my output to inxi --full

System:    Host: p53 Kernel: 5.8.16-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.5 Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20QNCTO1WW v: ThinkPad P53 serial: <superuser/root required> 
           Mobo: LENOVO model: 20QNCTO1WW v: SDK0J40697 WIN serial: <superuser/root required> UEFI: LENOVO 
           v: N2NET37W (1.22 ) date: 04/28/2020 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 82.2 Wh condition: 82.2/90.0 Wh (91%) 
CPU:       Topology: 6-Core model: Intel Core i7-9850H bits: 64 type: MT MCP L2 cache: 12.0 MiB 
           Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 
           7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Device-2: NVIDIA TU106GLM [Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile / Max-Q] driver: nvidia v: 440.100 
           Device-3: IMC Networks Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: modesetting,nvidia resolution: 1: 1920x1200~60Hz 
           2: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Quadro RTX 3000/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 440.100 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Device-2: BEHRINGER type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio 
           Device-3: AKAI Professional M.I. type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.16-2-MANJARO 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM driver: e1000e 
           IF: enp0s31f6 state: down mac: 00:2b:67:8d:1f:2a 
           Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi 
           IF: wlp82s0 state: up mac: 9c:fc:e8:3c:cb:b1 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 144.16 GiB (15.1%) 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: PC SN730 SDBQNTY-1T00-1001 size: 953.87 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 444.74 GiB used: 144.13 GiB (32.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 
Swap:      Alert: No Swap data was found. 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0 C mobo: 41.0 C gpu: nvidia temp: 42 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Info:      Processes: 289 Uptime: 14m Memory: 30.98 GiB used: 2.95 GiB (9.5%) Shell: Bash inxi: 3.1.05
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