Listen error: unable to monitor directories for changes
1000 is way too small, try with 524288 as explained in the wiki page: https://github.com/guard/listen/blob/master/README.md#increasing-the-amount-of-inotify-watchers
Listen uses inotify by default on Linux to monitor directories for changes. It's not uncommon to encounter a system limit on the number of files you can monitor. For example, Ubuntu Lucid's (64bit) inotify limit is set to 8192.
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If you are running Debian, RedHat, or another similar Linux distribution, run the following in a terminal:
echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -pIf you are running ArchLinux, run the following command instead
echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/40-max-user-watches.conf && sudo sysctl --system
Just try to execute this from your console
echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p
Hope this will work for you .
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For others who may have this issue. I had a VM disconnect which left the previous rails server running. Running below resolved the issue without needing to up the number of watcher.
kill -9 $(lsof -i tcp:3000 -t)