Ionic-cli: Live Reload failed to start, error: (CLI v1.4.5)

[mark-veenstra]

I have several Ionic projects on the same laptop. If I try to run ionic serve on the biggest and most important project I get the following error:

Live Reload failed to start, error:  (CLI v1.4.5)

Your system information:

Cordova CLI: 4.3.0
Gulp version:  CLI version 3.8.11
Gulp local:   Local version 3.8.11
Ionic Version: 1.0.0-beta.14
Ionic CLI Version: 1.4.5
Ionic App Lib Version: 0.0.22
OS: Distributor ID:     Ubuntu Description:     Ubuntu 15.04 
Node Version: v0.10.25

Strange thing is if I run ionic serve on a different project it just starts serving the project. Above serving error appears since today. Yesterday I had no problem at all on the same project.

What can I do to debug the issue? Because the project that does serve also has exact same versions for all tools/libs/cli. So no difference there.

I also tried to change the address and serving port or setting them manual, but all without success.

[jbavari]

Can you try running it with --verbose and see if any more helpful output comes about?

[mark-veenstra]

Well today I tried to get some debug logging, but all works on all projects. I will see in the next days if the issue arises again if not I will close this issue.

[unek]

Had the same problem, ran ionic serve with --verbose and got an "ENOSPC" error. This fix worked.

[mark-veenstra]

This could be the case on that moment for me also. I did had some errors in PHPStorm that day which also referenced to the fs.inotify.max_user_watches. So this issue seems to be fixed.

[LBenzahia]

The post suggest running this to increase the number of watches that are available.
please run this command line and all will be work fine
echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p

[paladini]

@LBenzahia Your command worked for me.