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.
Check for an already existing inotify config file (recent versions of Manjaro include one)
ls /etc/sysctl.d/*-max_user_watches.conf
echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/40-max_user_watches.conf && sudo sysctl --system
(in the rare case where it outputs multiple files, continue using the last one in the list)
# replace `/etc/sysctl.d/50-max_user_watches.conf` with the file returned from the previous `ls` command
echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/50-max_user_watches.conf && sudo sysctl --system
cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches
Expected output: 524288
@alejandroferrin
Oh cool - also using Plasma!
Yeah the reason this is so painful is that Manjaro has a file
50-max_user_watches.conf
preconfigured, but Arch doesn't.The original instuctions for this for Arch was to create a
40-max_user_watches.conf
but the existing config overrides it (50 > 40) on Manjaro.Ultimately finding the existing definition in
50-max_user_watches.conf
oughta do the trick 👍