watchman: watchman took too long to load with ReactNative

Hi,

I’m facing this error when I run ‘npm start’ on react-native folder.

[Error: Watcher took too long to load Try running watchman from your terminal https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/troubleshooting.html] Error: Watcher took too long to load Try running watchman from your terminal https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/troubleshooting.html at null._onTimeout (/Users/niccolo/Desktop/iOS Projects/react-native/packager/react-packager/src/FileWatcher/index.js:71:16) at Timer.listOnTimeout (timers.js:110:15)

ERROR: could not create packager - please shut down any existing instances that are already running.

I’ve just installed watchman via homebrew. How can I fix this error?

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  • Created 9 years ago
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Can you try:

brew uninstall watchman
brew install --HEAD watchman

and see if that helps?

Sorry, 81507da59377e0320d668cab7cdc369aaeced8c2 fixes this weird permission problem (doh!) You should:

brew uninstall watchman
brew install --HEAD watchman

to pick up that change.