ewollesen/autotest-inotify — Issue #14: Unhandled exception: inotify event queue has overflowed
Author: huerlisi
Created: 2011-11-17 14:27:03+00:00
State: open

I've got this exception after a 'git checkout branch_x; git rebase master'.

I think it i save to simply discard some inotify events. So it would probably be okay to simply ignore this exception.

Backtrace:

Unhandled exception: inotify event queue has overflowed.
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rb-inotify-0.8.8/lib/rb-inotify/event.rb:120:in `initialize'
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rb-inotify-0.8.8/lib/rb-inotify/event.rb:100:in `new'
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rb-inotify-0.8.8/lib/rb-inotify/event.rb:100:in `consume'
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rb-inotify-0.8.8/lib/rb-inotify/notifier.rb:272:in `read_events'
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rb-inotify-0.8.8/lib/rb-inotify/notifier.rb:233:in `process'
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/autotest-inotify-0.0.6/lib/autotest/inotify.rb:49:in `wait_for_changes'
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-4.5.0/lib/autotest.rb:336:in `run'
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-4.5.0/lib/autotest.rb:328:in `loop'
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-4.5.0/lib/autotest.rb:328:in `run'
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-4.5.0/lib/autotest.rb:241:in `run'
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-4.5.0/bin/autotest:6
/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/autotest:19:in `load'
/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/autotest:19
Quitting