Bug 107005

Summary:	inotify doesn't work in gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r2
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Richard Brown (RETIRED) <rbrown>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugs
Priority:	High
Version:	2005.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Richard Brown (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-09-23 09:01:10 UTC

I have inotify support enabled in my config, but it doesn't appear in dmesg nor
is a device node created. Someone else had the same problem here:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-288526-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-inotify-start-300.html

rbrown@solinari ~ $ uname -r 
2.6.13-gentoo-r2
rbrown@solinari ~ $ grep -i inotify /boot/.config-2.6.13-gentoo-r2 
CONFIG_INOTIFY=y
rbrown@solinari ~ $ ls /dev/ino*
ls: /dev/ino*: No such file or directory
rbrown@solinari ~ $ dmesg | grep -i inotify
rbrown@solinari ~ $ 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r1,
2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-tbird"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-tbird"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors.blueyonder.co.uk/mirrors/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage_mail"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 alsa apm arts avi bitmap-fonts crypt cups eds emboss encode foomaticdb
fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad
mikmod motif mp3 mpeg mssql mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly odbc ogg oggvorbis
opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba sdl spell ssl
tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU
kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

Comment 1 Vasilis Lourdas 2005-09-24 01:49:03 UTC

Take a look at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2732450.html#2732450.

Comment 2 kfm 2005-09-24 10:40:24 UTC

As dsd states in the forum post, a device node is no longer used for interaction
with the inotify subsystem. Also, inotify does not announce its presence in the
kernel ring buffer (dmesg) now that it has been merged. Any version of gamin
>=0.1.2 should work fine and 0.1.5 is the earliest version current available in
portage.

If you are a gnome user and having problems with nautilus integration then be
sure to upgrade gamin and re-emerge gnome-vfs if necessary.