Thanks Colin, that's the same issue than bug #1296233 Without improving/fixing/replace inotify we mostly have workaround solution. One would be to create those directories on the default image...
** Changed in: indicator-messages (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: indicator-messages (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to indicator-messages in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1308130 Title: indicator-messages-service is waking up every 4 seconds adding inotifies on paths that don't exist Status in “indicator-messages” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I've observed that an "idle" indicator-messages-services is waking up every 4 seconds on a poll() and doing two inotify_add_watch() calls on paths that don't exist, which wastes power on devices such as phones. strace shows: clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {10117, 224455428}) = 0 poll([{fd=8, events=POLLIN}, {fd=9, events=POLLIN}], 2, 3991) = 0 (Timeout) clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {10121, 224516469}) = 0 inotify_add_watch(9, "/usr/local/share/applications", IN_MODIFY|IN_ATTRIB|IN_CLOSE_WRITE|IN_MOVED_FROM|IN_MOVED_TO|IN_CREATE|IN_DELETE|IN_DELETE_SELF|IN_MOVE_SELF|IN_UNMOUNT|IN_ONLYDIR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) inotify_add_watch(9, "/usr/share/ubuntu-touch/applications", IN_MODIFY|IN_ATTRIB|IN_CLOSE_WRITE|IN_MOVED_FROM|IN_MOVED_TO|IN_CREATE|IN_DELETE|IN_DELETE_SELF|IN_MOVE_SELF|IN_UNMOUNT|IN_ONLYDIR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {10121, 232085521}) = 0 poll([{fd=8, events=POLLIN}, {fd=9, events=POLLIN}], 2, 3984) = 0 (Timeout) clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {10125, 222593684}) = 0 inotify_add_watch(9, "/usr/local/share/applications", IN_MODIFY|IN_ATTRIB|IN_CLOSE_WRITE|IN_MOVED_FROM|IN_MOVED_TO|IN_CREATE|IN_DELETE|IN_DELETE_SELF|IN_MOVE_SELF|IN_UNMOUNT|IN_ONLYDIR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) inotify_add_watch(9, "/usr/share/ubuntu-touch/applications", IN_MODIFY|IN_ATTRIB|IN_CLOSE_WRITE|IN_MOVED_FROM|IN_MOVED_TO|IN_CREATE|IN_DELETE|IN_DELETE_SELF|IN_MOVE_SELF|IN_UNMOUNT|IN_ONLYDIR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {10125, 229094524}) = 0 Can these redundant polling checks be reduced or removed? Polling every 4 seconds is a little bit heavy handed IMHO. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-messages/+bug/1308130/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp