Bug#546313: java-gnome - FTBFS: Could not initialize inotify

[Onkar Shinde]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Bastian Blank <waldi at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: java-gnome
> Version: 4.0.13-1
> Severity: serious
>
> There was an error while trying to autobuild your package:
>
>> sbuild (Debian sbuild) 0.58.2 (15 Jun 2009) on lxdebian.bfinv.de
> [...]
>> KILL  Xvfb
>> KILL  metacity
>> Exception in thread "main" org.gnome.glib.FatalError: GLib-GIO-WARNING
>> Could not initialize inotify
>>
>>       at org.gnome.gtk.GtkFileChooserDialog.gtk_file_chooser_dialog_new(Native Method)
>>       at org.gnome.gtk.GtkFileChooserDialog.createFileChooserDialog(GtkFileChooserDialog.java:38)
>>       at org.gnome.gtk.FileChooserDialog.<init>(FileChooserDialog.java:79)
>>       at org.gnome.gtk.SnapshotFileChooserDialog.<init>(SnapshotFileChooserDialog.java:26)
>>       at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
>>       at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
>>       at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
>>       at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:532)
>>       at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:372)
>>       at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:325)
>>       at Harness.main(Harness.java:196)
>> make[1]: *** [doc] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd-java-gnome_4.0.13-1-s390-imbX4m/java-gnome-4.0.13'
>> make: *** [debian/stamp-makefile-build] Error 2
>> dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
>

The problem is not a bug with java-gnome. The package builds fine in
pbuilder chroot for unstable. Looks like a bug caused by the
combination of glib version and kernel version is being triggered
here.
I found another similar bug
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543587

I am waiting for this package to be synced to Ubuntu to see if it
fails there as well, so that I can find out a common solution for
build failures.


Onkar