Watchman crawl failed. Retrying once with node crawler

Question

Watchman crawl failed. Retrying once with node crawler. Usually this happens when watchman isn\'t running. Create an empty .watchmanconfig file i

Answer 1

You're running watchman as root but the state dir, which may contain trigger definitions and thus allow spawning arbitrary commands, is not owned by root. This is a security issue and thus watchman is refusing to start.

The safest way to resolve this is to remove the state dir by running:

rm -rf /usr/local/var/run/watchman/root-state

I'd recommend that you avoid running tools that wish to use watchman using sudo to avoid this happening again.