Ubuntu 20.10 | Config error

Issues
1

Hi everyone,

I installed Inkdrop on Ubuntu 20.10 and when the program starts, it shows the following error

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Once click OK, the same error appears again in the application window
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Info

  • Platform: Ubuntu
  • Platform version: 20.10
  • App Version: 5.1.2
2

Hi King,

Thank you for reporting.
That’s weird but maybe you have to increase number of watchable files by inotify.

sudo sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches=32768

then restart Inkdrop. If it now works fine, you can make this setting permanent:

echo 32768 | sudo tee -a /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches

See also:

https://flight-manual.atom.io/hacking-atom/sections/hacking-on-atom-core/#typeerror-unable-to-watch-path

3

Hi @craftzdog
Unfortunately, this solution did not work for me

4

That’s weird. I need to reproduce it.

  • What does the permission of config.cson look like?
  • How did you install Inkdrop? via .deb or snap? If you installed it via apt, please try the snap package.
  • What errors do you get if you run it from terminal?
  • When did you start getting it? After upgrading Ubuntu to 20.10 or something?
5

Hi

  • What does the permission of config.cson look like?
$ ls -l /home/USER/.config/inkdrop/config.cson 
rw-rw-r--  1  USER  USER   778 B    Tue Dec  8 00:44:41 2020   config.cson
  • How did you install Inkdrop? via .deb or snap? If you installed it via apt, please try the snap package.

Using deb package. I will try to try snap but currently, I’m using inkdrop heavily and I just finished installing all my plugins. (feature request: It would be great if there is a way to sync the installed plugins based on the account, as chrome does. So after first installation and first login, I get a choice to install the plugins that I’ve already installed on the other machines)

  • What errors do you get if you run it from terminal?
$ inkdrop 
[bugsnag] Loaded!
  app:info Initializing inkdrop app.. +0ms
  app:info Starting inkdrop app.. +339ms
  app:error Unable to watch path: `config.cson`. Make sure you have permissions to
  app:error `/home/USER/.config/inkdrop/config.cson`. On linux there are currently problems with watch
  app:error sizes. See [this document][watches] for more info.
  app:error [watches]:https://github.com/atom/atom/blob/master/docs/build-instructions/linux.md#typeerror-unable-to-watch-path { detail: undefined, dismissable: true } +0ms
  app:info axios default config: { proxy: false, httpAgent: undefined, httpsAgent: undefined } +7s
  • When did you start getting it? After upgrading Ubuntu to 20.10 or something?
    Yes

Thanks

6

Thank you for the information.
I guess that’s because the system configuration has been changed after upgrading Ubuntu.
I need to know what’s happening when trying to watch the config file.
Can you please run the following NodeJS code and tell me the result?

Test code

  • Use NodeJS 12.8.1
  • Install pathwatcher@8.1.0 module via npm
const pathWatcher = require('pathwatcher')

try {
  const res = pathWatcher.watch('/home/USER/.config/inkdrop/config.cson', (event) => {
    console.log('event:', event)
  })
  console.log('watching:', res)
  res.close()
} catch (e) {
  console.error(e)
}

As for syncing plugins, I answered here but a user told me that he is working on it.

7

I’ve set up a Ubuntu 20.10 virtual machine, installed a deb package, and tried to reproduce it but couldn’t.
So, I guess it is your environment issue. Please check if the app is permitted to access the config file. You would better check the permission of the parent folders as well.
Waiting for the test code result.