[Packager] Error: Watcher took too long to load

[wanghaisheng]

solution in https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/troubleshooting.html does not work
node -v
v2.3.4

edwin@192.168.0.112:/Users/edwin/Documents/workfolder/workspace/ReactNative-PropertyFinder  git:(master*) $ npm start                   

> PropertyFinder@0.0.1 start /Users/edwin/Documents/workfolder/workspace/ReactNative-PropertyFinder
> node_modules/react-native/packager/packager.sh


 ===============================================================
 |  Running packager on port 8081.       
 |  Keep this packager running while developing on any JS         
 |  projects. Feel free to close this tab and run your own      
 |  packager instance if you prefer.                              
 |                                                              
 |     https://github.com/facebook/react-native                 
 |                                                              
 ===============================================================

Looking for JS files in
   /Users/edwin/Documents/workfolder/workspace/ReactNative-PropertyFinder 


React packager ready.

[00:18:06] <START> fs crawl
[00:18:08] <END>   fs crawl (1954ms)
 ERROR  Watcher took too long to load
Try running `watchman version` from your terminal
https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/troubleshooting.html
Error: Watcher took too long to load
Try running `watchman version` from your terminal
https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/troubleshooting.html
    at [object Object]._onTimeout (/Users/edwin/Documents/workfolder/workspace/ReactNative-PropertyFinder/node_modules/react-native/packager/react-packager/src/FileWatcher/index.js:98:16)
    at Timer.listOnTimeout (timers.js:89:15)

See http://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/troubleshooting.html
for common problems and solutions.

npm ERR! Darwin 14.4.0
npm ERR! argv "/Users/edwin/.nvm/versions/io.js/v2.3.4/bin/iojs" "/Users/edwin/.nvm/versions/io.js/v2.3.4/bin/npm" "start"
npm ERR! node v2.3.4
npm ERR! npm  v2.12.1
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! PropertyFinder@0.0.1 start: `node_modules/react-native/packager/packager.sh`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the PropertyFinder@0.0.1 start script 'node_modules/react-native/packager/packager.sh'.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the PropertyFinder package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node_modules/react-native/packager/packager.sh
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls PropertyFinder
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /Users/edwin/Documents/workfolder/workspace/ReactNative-PropertyFinder/npm-debug.log

[arypurnomoz]

+1

[brentvatne]

Try out some of these solutions, and let us know if one works so we can update the docs! Or if you're up to it, feel free to update them yourself and submit a PR!

#1991
#1920
#910
#20

If those don't work, try uninstalling node and watchman via homebrew, and install nvm and then use nvm to install iojs, then reinstall watchman and try again.

Ping me if none of the above solves your problem and we can re-open this and look into it further! 😄

[wanghaisheng]

@brentvatne yeah I have tried the solution you mentioned before i post this issue.

[brentvatne]

@wanghaisheng - you tried all of those solutions? What OS version are you using?

[wanghaisheng]

yeah, it takes my whole last weekend though
@brentvatne OSX 10.10.4
npm -v
2.12.1

[brentvatne]

:(

[brentvatne]

@wanghaisheng - does this happen when you just create a new project with react-native init SomeProjectName ? Maybe this is somehow related to the PropertyFinder app mentioned above (iirc it's from a very early tutorial) being on an older version

[wanghaisheng]

@brentvatne no . not intend to init some project until now.

edwin@edwindeMacBook-Pro.local:/Users/edwin/workspace  $ react-native init  test1
This will walk you through creating a new React Native project in /Users/edwin/Documents/workfolder/workspace/test1
npm WARN engine stacktrace-parser@0.1.1: wanted: {"node":"~0.10"} (current: {"node":"2.3.4","npm":"2.12.1"})

> ws@0.4.31 install /Users/edwin/Documents/workfolder/workspace/test1/node_modules/react-native/node_modules/ws
> (node-gyp rebuild 2> builderror.log) || (exit 0)

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/bufferutil/src/bufferutil.o

> fsevents@0.3.6 install /Users/edwin/Documents/workfolder/workspace/test1/node_modules/react-native/node_modules/babel/node_modules/chokidar/node_modules/fsevents
> node-gyp rebuild

2015-07-22 13:13:32.382 xcodebuild[39305:1493259] error: (null)
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/.node
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/fse/fsevents.o
In file included from /usr/include/dispatch/dispatch.h:51:0,
                 from /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Headers/CFStream.h:15,
                 from /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Headers/CFPropertyList.h:13,
                 from /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Headers/CoreFoundation.h:55,
                 from ../fsevents.cc:10:
/usr/include/dispatch/object.h:143:15: error: expected unqualified-id before '^' token
 typedef void (^dispatch_block_t)(void);
               ^
/usr/include/dispatch/object.h:143:15: error: expected ')' before '^' token
/usr/include/dispatch/object.h:362:3: error: 'dispatch_block_t' has not been declared
   dispatch_block_t notification_block);
   ^
In file included from /usr/include/Availability.h:153:0,
                 from /usr/include/sys/stat.h:75,
                 from /Users/edwin/.node-gyp/2.3.4/deps/uv/include/uv-unix.h:26,
                 from /Users/edwin/.node-gyp/2.3.4/deps/uv/include/uv.h:61,
                 from ../node_modules/nan/nan.h:23,
                 from ../fsevents.cc:6:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/FSEvents.framework/Headers/FSEvents.h:262:38: error: expected '}' before '__attribute__'
   kFSEventStreamCreateFlagIgnoreSelf __OSX_AVAILABLE_STARTING(__MAC_10_6, __IPHONE_6_0) = 0x00000008,
                                      ^
In file included from /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Headers/CoreServices.h:55:0,
                 from ../fsevents.cc:11:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/FSEvents.framework/Headers/FSEvents.h:262:89: error: expected unqualified-id before '=' token
   kFSEventStreamCreateFlagIgnoreSelf __OSX_AVAILABLE_STARTING(__MAC_10_6, __IPHONE_6_0) = 0x00000008,
                                                                                         ^
In file included from /usr/include/Availability.h:153:0,
                 from /usr/include/sys/stat.h:75,
                 from /Users/edwin/.node-gyp/2.3.4/deps/uv/include/uv-unix.h:26,
                 from /Users/edwin/.node-gyp/2.3.4/deps/uv/include/uv.h:61,
                 from ../node_modules/nan/nan.h:23,
                 from ../fsevents.cc:6:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/FSEvents.framework/Headers/FSEvents.h:414:38: error: expected '}' before '__attribute__'
   kFSEventStreamEventFlagItemCreated __OSX_AVAILABLE_STARTING(__MAC_10_7, __IPHONE_6_0) = 0x00000100,
                                      ^
In file included from /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Headers/CoreServices.h:55:0,
                 from ../fsevents.cc:11:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/FSEvents.framework/Headers/FSEvents.h:414:89: error: expected unqualified-id before '=' token
   kFSEventStreamEventFlagItemCreated __OSX_AVAILABLE_STARTING(__MAC_10_7, __IPHONE_6_0) = 0x00000100,
                                                                                         ^
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/FSEvents.framework/Headers/FSEvents.h:493:1: error: expected declaration before '}' token
 };
 ^
make: *** [Release/obj.target/fse/fsevents.o] Error 1
gyp ERR! build error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:269:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at emitTwo (events.js:87:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:172:7)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:200:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 14.4.0
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/Cellar/iojs/2.3.4/bin/iojs" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /Users/edwin/Documents/workfolder/workspace/test1/node_modules/react-native/node_modules/babel/node_modules/chokidar/node_modules/fsevents
gyp ERR! node -v v2.3.4
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v2.0.1
gyp ERR! not ok 
npm WARN optional dep failed, continuing fsevents@0.3.6
react-native@0.7.1 node_modules/react-native
├── absolute-path@0.0.0
├── stacktrace-parser@0.1.1
├── graceful-fs@3.0.8
├── react-timer-mixin@0.13.2
├── underscore@1.7.0
├── image-size@0.3.5
├── yargs@1.3.2
├── bluebird@2.9.34
├── source-map@0.1.31 (amdefine@1.0.0)
├── rebound@0.0.12
├── optimist@0.6.1 (wordwrap@0.0.3, minimist@0.0.10)
├── debug@2.1.3 (ms@0.7.0)
├── promise@7.0.3 (asap@2.0.3)
├── worker-farm@1.3.1 (xtend@4.0.0, errno@0.1.3)
├── uglify-js@2.4.23 (uglify-to-browserify@1.0.2, async@0.2.10, source-map@0.1.34, yargs@3.5.4)
├── ws@0.4.31 (tinycolor@0.0.1, options@0.0.6, commander@0.6.1, nan@0.3.2)
├── module-deps@3.5.6 (inherits@2.0.1, shallow-copy@0.0.1, duplexer2@0.0.2, minimist@0.2.0, subarg@0.0.1, resolve@0.7.4, parents@1.0.1, readable-stream@1.1.13, through2@0.4.2, stream-combiner2@1.0.2, JSONStream@0.7.4, concat-stream@1.4.10, browser-resolve@1.9.0, detective@3.1.0)
├── joi@5.1.0 (topo@1.0.2, isemail@1.1.1, hoek@2.14.0, moment@2.10.3)
├── sane@1.1.3 (watch@0.10.0, minimist@1.1.1, minimatch@0.2.14, exec-sh@0.2.0, fb-watchman@1.2.0, walker@1.0.7)
├── jstransform@11.0.1 (object-assign@2.1.1, base62@1.1.0, esprima-fb@15001.1.0-dev-harmony-fb, source-map@0.4.4, commoner@0.10.3)
├── react-tools@0.13.2 (jstransform@10.1.0, commoner@0.10.3)
├── chalk@1.1.0 (escape-string-regexp@1.0.3, supports-color@2.0.0, ansi-styles@2.1.0, strip-ansi@3.0.0, has-ansi@2.0.0)
├── babel@5.4.3 (slash@1.0.0, path-is-absolute@1.0.0, fs-readdir-recursive@0.1.2, convert-source-map@1.1.1, source-map@0.4.4, lodash@3.10.0, commander@2.8.1, output-file-sync@1.1.1, glob@5.0.14, chokidar@1.0.5)
├── babel-core@5.8.3 (slash@1.0.0, trim-right@1.0.1, to-fast-properties@1.0.1, path-is-absolute@1.0.0, shebang-regex@1.0.0, fs-readdir-recursive@0.1.2, babel-plugin-remove-debugger@1.0.1, babel-plugin-remove-console@1.0.1, babel-plugin-property-literals@1.0.1, babel-plugin-jscript@1.0.1, babel-plugin-inline-environment-variables@1.0.1, babel-plugin-eval@1.0.1, babel-plugin-undefined-to-void@1.1.6, babel-plugin-member-expression-literals@1.0.1, babel-plugin-react-constant-elements@1.0.3, babel-plugin-react-display-name@1.0.3, path-exists@1.0.0, babel-plugin-constant-folding@1.0.1, babel-plugin-proto-to-assign@1.0.3, babel-plugin-dead-code-elimination@1.0.2, strip-json-comments@1.0.2, babel-plugin-runtime@1.0.7, private@0.1.6, globals@6.4.1, esutils@2.0.2, convert-source-map@1.1.1, js-tokens@1.0.1, babylon@5.8.3, line-numbers@0.2.0, source-map@0.4.4, minimatch@2.0.9, detect-indent@3.0.1, babel-plugin-undeclared-variables-check@1.0.2, resolve@1.1.6, output-file-sync@1.1.1, source-map-support@0.2.10, lodash@3.10.0, home-or-tmp@1.0.0, core-js@0.9.18, regexpu@1.2.0, repeating@1.1.3, is-integer@1.0.4, regenerator@0.8.34)
└── connect@2.8.3 (methods@0.0.1, uid2@0.0.2, fresh@0.1.0, cookie-signature@1.0.1, pause@0.0.1, qs@0.6.5, bytes@0.2.0, buffer-crc32@0.2.1, cookie@0.1.0, formidable@1.0.14, send@0.1.2)
Setting up new React Native app in /Users/edwin/Documents/workfolder/workspace/test1
Next Steps:
   Open /Users/edwin/Documents/workfolder/workspace/test1/test1.xcodeproj in Xcode
   Hit Run button

[brentvatne]

@wanghaisheng - see: sandeepmistry/node-xpc-connection#2 (comment) maybe?

[wanghaisheng]

@brentvatne gcc version is different.for installing watchman,I have manually installed latest version gcc on osx10.10.4 because there is no default installation with Xcode
facebook/watchman#120

[broonage]

Hi guys,

I'm a +1. I've followed all the solutions (uninstall, chmod rights, removing launchagents etc), the official troubleshooting solution, and still getting the timeout error.

Here's the log:

2015-07-22T14:00:03,546: [listener] Using watcher mechanism fsevents
2015-07-22T14:00:03,547: [listener] file limit is 256 kern.maxfilesperproc=10240
2015-07-22T14:00:03,547: [listener] raised file limit to 10240
2015-07-22T14:00:03,547: [listener] Using socket from launchd as listening socket
2015-07-22T14:00:03,547: [listener] failed to parse json from /usr/local/Cellar/watchman/HEAD/var/run/watchman/broonage.state: unable to open /usr/local/Cellar/watchman/HEAD/var/run/watchman/broonage.state: No such file or directory
2015-07-22T14:00:57,412: [client:fd=4] path /Users/broonage is on filesystem type hfs
2015-07-22T14:04:54,395: [client:fd=4] resolve_root: path "" must be absolute
2015-07-22T14:04:54,407: [client:fd=9] resolve_root: path "" must be absolute
2015-07-22T14:12:50,971: [client:fd=4] resolve_root: path "" must be absolute
2015-07-22T14:12:50,975: [client:fd=9] resolve_root: path "" must be absolute
2015-07-22T14:17:32,013: [client:fd=4] resolve_root: path "" must be absolute
2015-07-22T14:17:32,032: [client:fd=9] resolve_root: path "" must be absolute