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Watches files and records, or triggers actions, when they change.
https://facebook.github.io/watchman/
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Watchman fails to start in Fedora 36 #1048

Closed pkrakesh closed 1 year ago

pkrakesh commented 2 years ago

I have installed watchman from binaries following these steps in the documentation

$ unzip watchman-*-linux.zip
$ cd watchman-vYYYY.MM.DD.00-linux
$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/{bin,lib} /usr/local/var/run/watchman
$ sudo cp bin/* /usr/local/bin
$ sudo cp lib/* /usr/local/lib
$ sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/watchman
$ sudo chmod 2777 /usr/local/var/run/watchman

But when I try to invoke it the following error occurs:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::system_error'
terminate called recursively
Aborted (core dumped)

Please help.

IkKan commented 2 years ago

+1

Eznopot commented 2 years ago

+1

IkKan commented 2 years ago

For anyone else seeing this issue on Fedora 36:

Installing watchman from binaries doesn't work but it looks like watchman is in the @fedora repo. So, just

  1. Remove binaries from $PATH
  2. Install it with sudo dnf install watchman

And everything works like a charm...

chadaustin commented 1 year ago

We now build an RPM for Fedora 36. You can download it and follow the installation instructions at https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/install.html

I recommend against using the Fedora-provided Watchman, because it's old and missing bug and security fixes.