Mailspring: ENOSPC Error Causes Mailspring To Crash

Created on 15 Jan 2018 · 5Comments · Source: Foundry376/Mailspring

Are there any related issues?

I'd think it in the ballpark of this previous, now closed error: https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring/issues/14
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What operating system are you using?

Ubuntu 17.10
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What version of Mailspring are you using?

Version 1.0.12-amd64
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List of extensions installed include

Clipboard
Themes
Panel OSD
Top Icons Plus
Frippery Move Clock
Media Player Indicator
Openweather
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Is the issue related to a specific email provider (Gmail, Exchange, etc.)?

No.
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Is the issue reproducible with a particular attachment, message, signature, etc?

N/A
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Feature Request?
N/A
error_mailspring_enospc

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Source

drejones

Most helpful comment

Try increasing your ionotify limit as per: https://github.com/guard/listen/wiki/Increasing-the-amount-of-inotify-watchers

to set limit temporarily and check it works:

sudo sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288
sudo sysctl -p

If that works, set the new limit permanently:

echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
sudo sysctl -p

Tall-Paul on 23 May 2018

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All 5 comments

ENOSPC = no space on your device. Do you have enougth space on your disk or environment?

jenguidanos on 17 Jan 2018

Hi there,

Yes. I've got about 90 GB of disk free. The problem seems to have something do with this path /usr/share/mailspring/resources/app.asar.unpacked/mailsync.bin But I have exactly no idea why the error is a lack of space.

drejones on 17 Jan 2018

this is simply a error due to lack of space and maybe due to the failure in the resource location

Rohitash28 on 19 Jan 2018

Try increasing your ionotify limit as per: https://github.com/guard/listen/wiki/Increasing-the-amount-of-inotify-watchers

to set limit temporarily and check it works:

sudo sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288
sudo sysctl -p

If that works, set the new limit permanently:

echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
sudo sysctl -p

Tall-Paul on 23 May 2018

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Confirm that snap run mailspring failed to launch any window, logging ENOSPC errors for watch keymap.json instead, and sudo sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches=65536 fixed it.

The default per-user limit on total inotify watches appears to be 8k on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic, which doesn't seem to be enough.