What is the purpose of the notification "Initializing filesystem inotify monitoring"?

[ixevix]

This pops up every time onedrive is started on GNOME. In my opinion it's unnecessary and adds frustration as there is just always the same message. Should it be removed?

[abraunegg]

@ixevix

This pops up every time onedrive is started on GNOME.

This message exists to advise you the client is now monitoring your local filesystem. This is the reason why it exists and occurs when running in --monitor mode which is used when using a systemd service or when you are running the client manually.

In a similar vein, this message does not occur when using --sync .. which many people do - as they run things manually, but want GUI notifications .....

This is why it exists.

In my opinion it's unnecessary and adds frustration as there is just always the same message.

The same could be said for all other startup elements .. but then you have no way knowing if the client has started .........

Should it be removed?

You can disable GUI notifications. Please read the documentation.

[H76TWE]

I am using onedrive for Linux for quite some time now and it runs great. Since a couple of days it still runs great but I get the aformentioned notification not only on startup (which makes sense) but every few minutes. Maybe this was also the motivation of the initial post.

[abraunegg]

@H76TWE

but every few minutes. Maybe this was also the motivation of the initial post.

That would indicate you have an underlying issue ..... why is the client restarting every few minutes?

1. You have a problem that is causing systemd to restart
2. You have a second systemd service in the background running - this is very common due to Ubuntu packages as it installs a systemd service that should not be there and is the cause of this

You should look deeper and understand why your system in generating this notification on such a frequent basis.

[H76TWE]

Thanks a lot @abraunegg, as I am still a Linux novice, it will probably take me some time to solve this, but I will try. For the sake of completeness: I have checked the application logs and the following entries before each unintended restart (while they are not there for the initial startup):

21:35:21 onedrive: ??:? [0x598740f84294]
21:35:21 onedrive: ??:? [0x598740f84294]
21:35:21 onedrive: ??:? __libc_start_main [0x70efa362a47a]
21:35:21 onedrive: ??:? [0x70efa362a3b7]
21:35:21 onedrive: ??:? [0x5987410b5f61]
21:35:21 onedrive: ??:? _d_run_main [0x70efa3ba5a3c]
21:35:21 onedrive: ??:? _d_run_main2 [0x70efa3ba5be6]
21:35:21 onedrive: ??:? void rt.dmain2._d_run_main2(char[][], ulong, extern (C) int function(char[][])*).runAll() [0x70efa3ba5dcc]
21:35:21 onedrive: ??:? [0x59874108a3cc]
21:35:21 onedrive: ??:? [0x59874108c636]
21:35:21 onedrive: ??:? [0x598740fc147a]
21:35:21 onedrive: ??:? [0x598740fc3763]
21:35:21 onedrive: ??:? [0x598740fcffc3]
21:35:21 onedrive: ??:? [0x598740fd676f]
21:35:21 onedrive: ??:? [0x598740fc4d22]
21:35:21 onedrive: ??:? [0x598740fb5f01]
21:35:21 onedrive: ??:? _d_assert [0x70efa3b6e942]
21:35:21 onedrive: ----------------
21:35:21 onedrive: core.exception.AssertError@src/itemdb.d(892): Assertion failure
21:35:21 onedrive: Database vacuum is complete
21:35:21 onedrive: Generating a /delta response from the OneDrive API for this Drive ID: (removed) and Item ID: (removed) ........................................................Attempting to perform a database vacuum to optimise database

[abraunegg]

@H76TWE
You appear to be hitting an application bug of some sort.

Please raise a new bug report and provide all details. Please generate a verbose debug log following https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive/wiki/Generate-https-debug-log-for-support

All these details then help to fix the issue you are encountering.

[abraunegg]

@H76TWE
Please can you raise the bug report

[H76TWE]

@abraunegg
It took a bit due to a busy day but you should now find the log in you inbox.