inotify_add_watch(7, /dev/sdb, 10) failed: No such file or directory

[travankor]

For the past week or so, my logger is flooded with the following message: udevd[timestamp]: inotify_add_watch(7, /dev/sdb, 10) failed: No such file or directory.

udev still seems to work, so the message seems harmless. But I would like to disable this message or fix whatever it's root cause is. I remember that, while dd'ing to /dev/sdb, I lost connection to that device. dd wrote the remaining data to /dev/sdb as tmpfs (which seems like wrong behavior to me). With a big chunk of my memory used up, I deleted /dev/sdb and now this message keeps spamming my logger.

udev still seems to detect devices and can create /dev/sdb when there is a new device. However, instead of fixing the previous error message udev spams inotify_add_watch(7, /dev/sdc, 10) failed: No such file or directory and will just change to sdd, sde when additional devices are added.

[travankor]

Unrelated, it would be nice if there was an alternative to {systemd,e}udev for desktop Linux... tried mdev and couldn't get Xorg/Wayland working

[bbonev]

Can you reproduce that problem? I have tried and could not.