Gulp Watch error on Ubuntu 14.04 [solved]

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am getting the following error while try to use gulp watch, the browser sync is loading fine, but it wont detect the changes i make in the the file, any idea why ??

ajith@ajith-box:~/path/to/project/folder$ gulp watch
[21:56:37] Using gulpfile ~/path/to/project/folder/gulpfile.js
[21:56:37] Starting 'watch'...
[21:56:37] 'watch' errored after 28 ms
[21:56:37] Error: watch ENOSPC
at errnoException (fs.js:1031:11)
at FSWatcher.start (fs.js:1063:11)
at Object.fs.watch (fs.js:1088:11)
at Gaze._watchDir (/home/ajith/path/to/project/folder/node_modules/gulp/node_modules/vinyl-fs/node_modules/glob-watcher/node_modules/gaze/lib/gaze.js:289:30)
at /home/ajith/path/to/project/folder/node_modules/gulp/node_modules/vinyl-fs/node_modules/glob-watcher/node_modules/gaze/lib/gaze.js:358:10
at iterate (/home/ajith/path/to/project/folder/node_modules/gulp/node_modules/vinyl-fs/node_modules/glob-watcher/node_modules/gaze/lib/helper.js:52:5)
at Object.forEachSeries (/home/ajith/path/to/project/folder/node_modules/gulp/node_modules/vinyl-fs/node_modules/glob-watcher/node_modules/gaze/lib/helper.js:66:3)
at Gaze._initWatched (/home/ajith/path/to/project/folder/node_modules/gulp/node_modules/vinyl-fs/node_modules/glob-watcher/node_modules/gaze/lib/gaze.js:354:10)
at Gaze.add (/home/ajith/path/to/project/folder/node_modules/gulp/node_modules/vinyl-fs/node_modules/glob-watcher/node_modules/gaze/lib/gaze.js:177:8)
at new Gaze (/home/ajith/path/to/project/folder/node_modules/gulp/node_modules/vinyl-fs/node_modules/glob-watcher/node_modules/gaze/lib/gaze.js:74:10)

Thanks, :smile:

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Related? https://github.com/shama/gaze/issues/163

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Thanks for the link austin, i think its not the issue, there is more than 30GB space in the drive.

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Finally found the solution :smile:

the reason for the error is there is a limit in the system for how many files can be watched by a user, using the following command in a terminal window we can simply increase the limit …

echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=582222 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p
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thanks for this information. It worked at my side too.

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thanks bro… It worked… :smiley:

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This worked for me also, thank you!

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Thanks its worked for me :smiley:

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Worked for me too, thanks

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Tks! It helped me too!

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It works! Solving the same problem when I use webpack-dev-server, thx!

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Thanks man, it works!

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thanks !!! It worked for me!

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Same here !!! thank you !!!

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Thanks a lot man it works!