LMDE6 issue: Megasync crashes on huge sync - Unable to add filesystem watch (Linux Mint Debian Edition)

[joachimrs]

To resolve this have a look at /etc/sysctl.d/lmde.conf and comment out the fs.inotify.max_user_watches line like so:

kernel.dmesg_restrict=0
# fs.inotify.max_user_watches=65536

When installing megasync-Debian_12_amd64.deb there should be a /etc/sysctl.d/99-megasync-inotify-limit.conf containing:

fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288

Unfortunately LMDE6 does not adhere to the old Unix style of '##==Priority' but rather adopts the poettering systemd 'I know better than you in which order I will load .conf files! Shut up!" schema. Being '99' the megasync configuration should be loaded last, but as 'lmde' comes after '99' it is overwritten with the lmde setting of 65k - unless you comment that out, see above. Restart required. After rebooting check with:

$ sysctl fs.inotify
fs.inotify.max_queued_events = 16384
fs.inotify.max_user_instances = 128
fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288

It worked and you should be able to 'Desktop Sync' those HUGE directories of useless junk again :)

[tt-mega]

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