====== add_watch: cannot watch ====== Exception: Unable to update the server configuration with local parameters: Traceback (most recent call last): ... pyinotify.WatchManagerError: add_watch: cannot watch /home/user/yocto/build/conf WD=-1, Errno=No space left on device (ENOSPC) Reason: System already has increased ''max_user_watches'' to 32k, but running remote VSCode which ''watch'' changes in huge Yocto directory consumes it. Solution is to increase ''max_user_watches'' echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=65536 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p or even higher values. How to monitor used watches: find /proc/*/fd -lname anon_inode:inotify | cut -d/ -f3 | xargs -I '{}' -- ps --no-headers -o '%p %U %c' -p '{}' | uniq -c | sort -nr from [[https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/444998/how-to-set-and-understand-fs-notify-max-user-watches|How to set and understand fs.notify.max_user_watches]]