Package: minidlna
Version: 1.1.2+dfsg-1.1+b3
Severity: important

On startup on my system minidlna exits with the following log message:

[2016/03/25 15:04:04] inotify.c:198: warn: WARNING: Inotify max_user_watches 
[16382] is low or close to the number of used watches [1887] and I do not have 
permission to increase this limit.  Please do so manually by writing a higher 
value into /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches.

There are several problems with this.  One is that this message is
marked as a warning and it is therefore very surprising to find it
treated as a fatal error.  This is especially the case since the message
says that the number of used watches is about an order of magnitude
lower than the limit which doesn't suggest that the limit has actually
been hit.

The other is that since the program appears to have support for
non-inotify operation (there's a configuration option to control inotify
use) I'd expect it to fall back to that.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages minidlna depends on:
ii  adduser          3.113+nmu3
ii  initscripts      2.88dsf-59
ii  libavformat56    6:11.6-1~deb8u1
ii  libavutil54      6:11.6-1~deb8u1
ii  libc6            2.19-18+deb8u3
ii  libexif12        0.6.21-2
ii  libflac8         1.3.0-3
ii  libid3tag0       0.15.1b-11
ii  libjpeg62-turbo  1:1.3.1-12
ii  libogg0          1.3.2-1
ii  libsqlite3-0     3.8.7.1-1+deb8u1
ii  libvorbis0a      1.3.4-2
ii  lsb-base         4.1+Debian13+nmu1

minidlna recommends no packages.

minidlna suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/minidlna.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information

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