Re: [gentoo-user] nepomuk gone, baloo enters

[J. Roeleveld]

On Friday, August 21, 2015 10:56:58 AM Francisco Ares wrote:
> 2015-08-21 10:49 GMT-03:00 Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.com>:
> > 2015-08-21 10:31 GMT-03:00 J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.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