problem with inotify on ubuntu 8.04.1

Sun Jan 4 01:34:42 CST 2009

I discovered a strange problem and was curious to see if anyone else has
seen this.

Context:
  OS: ubuntu 8.04.1 server, running on a vmware virtual machine
  mercurial version: 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 installed after removing ubuntu's
default mercurial 1.0
  ubuntu

Description:

In my small (~20 files) repo, I am intermittently seeing the following
behavior: I can make a change to a file and hg status completely and
persistently ignores the change.
I had not seen the behavior on my centos 4 machine, and I found that inotify
extension is turned on by default on debian/ubuntu systems in /etc/

The behavior resolves for a while if I remove .hg/inotify.sock.
( fuser shows a server process using this file.)

With [inotify] debug = 1,
 I can get some inotify: *** if I move a subdirectory but I can't reproduce
the error predictably.  However, it has happened several times with debug=0
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