I've noticed Spotify fails to start properly if my system's inotify watch limit has been exhausted. It just sits there, presumably trying to get a notifier, maxing out a single core and printing this to stdout:
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13:17:04.214 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:99] Check failed: errno == EINTR: 13:17:04.214 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:99] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
13:17:04.214 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:99] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
13:17:04.214 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:99] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
13:17:04.214 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:99] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
13:17:04.214 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:99] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
13:17:04.214 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:99] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
13:17:04.214 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:99] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
13:17:04.214 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:99] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
13:17:04.214 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:99] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
13:17:04.214 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:99] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
13:17:04.214 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:99] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
13:17:04.214 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:99] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
13:17:04.214 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:99] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
13:17:04.214 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:99] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
13:17:04.214 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:99] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
13:17:04.214 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:99] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
13:17:04.214 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:99] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
13:17:04.214 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:99] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
13:17:04.214 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:99] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
13:17:04.214 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:99] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
13:17:04.214 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:99] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
13:17:04.214 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:99] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
13:17:04.214 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:99] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
13:17:04.215 A [file_system_monitor_linux.cpp:99] Check failed: errno == EINTR:
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