On Friday, August 21, 2015 10:56:58 AM Francisco Ares wrote: > 2015-08-21 10:49 GMT-03:00 Francisco Ares <fra...@gmail.com>: > > 2015-08-21 10:31 GMT-03:00 J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org>: > >> On Friday, August 21, 2015 10:06:15 AM Francisco Ares wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > In fact, I can only suppose there's something related to changing from > >> > nepomuk to baloo: > >> > > >> > Now, every time I log in, a window pops up asking for root password. > >> > >> The > >> > >> > window title is "PolicyKit - KDE" and pressing the button "Details", it > >> > shows: > >> > > >> > Action: Folder Watch Limit > >> > polkit.subject-pid: 5254 > >> > polkit.caller-pid: 6699 > >> > > >> > Looking for those PIDs: > >> > > >> > ~ $ ps -A | grep 5254 > >> > > >> > 5254 ? 00:00:07 baloo_file > >> > > >> > and PID 6699 doesn't show up any more, probably the process has already > >> > ended. > >> > > >> > Did I miss something? How do I set up Baloo? Looking on the net, I only > >> > found how to set up a file ~/.kde4/share/config/nepomukserverrc (that > >> > >> was > >> > >> > nonexistent, which seemed strange), is there something else regarding > >> > >> the > >> > >> > database it might be willing to use? > >> > >> Nepomuk, and now Baloo, want to open file-watchers on your system to get > >> change-notifications directly from the kernel (filesystem driver), > >> instead of > >> polling the filesystem. > >> This is actually better, performance wise. > >> > >> To avoid these message, I created the following file a long time ago: > >> > >> % cat /etc/sysctl.d/97-kde-nepomuk-filewatch-inotify.conf > >> fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 65536 > >> > >> Guess I will need to change the name of that file now :) > >> > >> Kind regards, > >> > >> Joost > > > > Thank you, Joost. > > > > Best Regards, > > Francisco > > Checking on the file pointed by Joost, I've found it on my filesystem), but > there is another file, an almost exact copy, for baloo: > > ~ # l /etc/sysctl.d/ > total 28K > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K Ago 21 10:50 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 160 root root 12K Ago 21 10:22 ../ > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36 Ago 21 09:16 > 97-kde-baloo-filewatch-inotify.conf > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36 Mai 7 2014 > 97-kde-nepomuk-filewatch-inotify.conf > > > ~ # cat /etc/sysctl.d/97-kde-* > fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 65536 > fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 32768 > > > > The first value (65536) is from 97-kde-baloo-filewatch-inotify.conf . The > second (32768) is from 97-kde-nepomuk-filewatch-inotify.conf. > > So, the mystery goes on... > > Thanks, > Francisco
what does: % cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches give you? My guess: 32768 (as that's the last one it will find) On my system I get 65536. I think if you were to remove the nepomuk file, it should work. -- Joost
