I'm currently running a job in my workflow using my custom docker image which has all the environment setup.
On the step of Expo Deploy i'm running into this error `Error: ENOSPC: System limit for number of file watchers reached`. I can't increase the watchers in my docker image as it is only available in read-only mode if not ran with privileges.
The job in my workflow
expo-publish: name: Expo Publish needs: test runs-on: ubuntu-latest container: image: bluebasejs/github-actions-image strategy: matrix: node-version: [12] steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v1
- name: Install Dependencies env: NPM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }} run: yarn install - name: Build Expo run: HOME=/root bluebase expo:build - name: Expo Deploy uses: BlueBaseJS/expo-deploy-github-action@master env: GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} EXPO_CLI_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.EXPO_CLI_USERNAME }} EXPO_CLI_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.EXPO_CLI_PASSWORD }}
Adding this step to the job
- run: fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sysctl -p
results in the error
sysctl: setting key "fs.inotify.max_user_watches": Read-only file system
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This is a [docker limitation](https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/4611), you cannot change sysctl settings by default.
You may be able to change the sysctl settings using the `--sysctl ...` option, adding that to the [container options](https://help.github.com/en/github/automating-your-workflow-with-github-actions/workflow-syntax-for-g...).
Solved it by adding the --privileged to the options
@ethomson wrote:This is a [docker limitation](https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/4611), you cannot change sysctl settings by default.
You may be able to change the sysctl settings using the `--sysctl ...` option, adding that to the [container options](https://help.github.com/en/github/automating-your-workflow-with-github-actions/workflow-syntax-for-g...).