Odoo Build Troubleshooting

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inotify instance limit reached

Problem

While starting the native server this error is thrown:

OSError: [Errno 24] inotify instance limit reached

Or this error:

inotify.calls.InotifyError: Call failed (should not be -1): (-1) ERRNO=(0)

Solution

Increase inotify watch limit.

sudo vi /etc/sysctl.conf

fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288
fs.inotify.max_user_instances=256

sudo sysctl -p

ImportError libldap

Problem

Instance with auth_ldap does not start.

ImportError: libldap_r-2.4.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Solution

Reinstall with pip flags.

pip install python-ldap --force-reinstall --no-binary python-ldap

psycopg2 symbol not found

Problem

init-db fails with psycopg2 errors on macOS / Darwin.

Solution

source task source
pip install psycopg2-binary --force

Distribution not found

Problem

After switching the Odoo version with task checkout the task command fail with this error:

pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'odoo==XX.0' distribution was not found and is required by the application

Solution

The local Odoo package needs to be updated:

source task source
pip install -e odoo

sqlite3 module not found

Problem

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_sqlite3'

Solution

Install library and reinstall python.

sudo apt install libsqlite3-dev
pyenv install 3.7.2