VSCode (code - oss) inotify max user watches still an issue even after change

Thatguy · 14 February 2021 18:18

2021-02-14_12-11

For some reason code - oss still shows this despite me changing it according to the instructions here:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/tbjgolden/c53ca37f3bc2fab8c930183310918c8c

inotify-instructions.md

To avoid this error, we need to _increase the inotify watcher limit_.

The way to do this is different on Arch based distributions than other Linux distributions.

# Instructions for Arch Linux/Manjaro

Check for an already existing inotify config file
(recent versions of Manjaro include one)

```sh

This file has been truncated. show original

To show I have changed this:

◆ ~ ❯❯❯ ls /etc/sysctl.d/*-max_user_watches.conf
/etc/sysctl.d/50-max_user_watches.conf
◆ ~ ❯❯❯ cat /etc/sysctl.d/40-max-user-watches.conf
fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288
◆ ~ ❯❯❯ cat /etc/sysctl.d/50-max-user-watches.conf
fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288
◆ ~ ❯❯❯ cat /etc/sysctl.d/50-max_user_watches.conf 
fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288
◆ ~ ❯❯❯ ls /etc/sysctl.d/
40-max-user-watches.conf  50-max-user-watches.conf  50-max_user_watches.conf
◆ ~ ❯❯❯

(i’m not sure why there are multiple of these user watches files, so maybe it has to do something with that?)

As of today, I have the latest updates for the stable branch. and Here is my Code - OSS info:

Version: 1.52.1
Commit: ea3859d4ba2f3e577a159bc91e3074c5d85c0523
Date: 2020-12-19T14:42:39.893Z
Electron: 9.4.2
Chrome: 83.0.4103.122
Node.js: 12.14.1
V8: 8.3.110.13-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 5.10.15-1-MANJARO

I’ve had this issue for a while now and I’ve of course restarted multiple times. Just finally had the time to post about it now.

Thank You.