Watchman error: Watcher took too long to load

[charlesfranciscodev]

Description

I get Watchman error: Watcher took too long to load when running react-native start

Error: Watchman error: Watcher took too long to load (WatchmanWatcher)
Try running watchman version from your terminal
https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/troubleshooting.html. Make sure watchman is running for this project. See https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/troubleshooting.html.
at Promise.all.then.then.error (Project/node_modules/react-native/packager/react-packager/src/node-haste/crawlers/watchman.js:64:15)

Reproduction Steps and Sample Code

react-native start

Sample Code

Solution

For now I have to reinstall watchman to fix it.
I don't know how to fix it permanently.

Installation Steps

Additional Information

• React Native version: 0.35.0
• Platform: Android
• Development Operating System: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
• watchman version 4.7.0
• MAX_WAIT_TIME = 120000

[ericvicenti]

I think this can be solved by running watchman watch-del-all

[charlesfranciscodev]

I tried running watchman watch-del-all but I still get the same error Watchman error: Watcher took too long to load. Any ideas?