inotify and gnome authorization

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 08:30 -0700, darrell pfeifer wrote:

> 
> The bottom line: with policykit being used more heavily in rawhide, if
> you're getting strange intermittent permissions failures, try the
> workaround.
> 

When you run out of inotify watches, many things will fail, not just
PolicyKit. 

Likely culprits for eating the watches would be indexers like beagle or
tracker. I used to have a systemtap script for monitoring inotify watch
consumption, but I seem to have lost it...


Matthias