Cannot setup inotify for '/root/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share/dbus-1/services'; error 'Permission denied

Hi Team,

I have a centos7.9 production server. Whenever a user tries to login to the server, they are displayed with the below message in the terminal.

Cannot setup inotify for ‘/root/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share/dbus-1/services’; error 'Permission denied

However, it does not affect the normal working of the server or users. I checked the file ‘’ and found that it does not even exist. I tried uninstalling py-inotify which was installed on the server and couldn’t help. So assume that it is something related to Flatpak is causing this error in the server. Since this is a production server, uninstalling is not recommended.

Any solution how to fix this issue other than uninstalling Flatpak on the server?

Thanks
Shiva.

Hey, please ask in the flatpak issue tracker GitHub - flatpak/flatpak: Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework