Watchman: Library/LaunchAgents/com.github.facebook.watchman.plist for write: Not a directory

Question

I'm trying to run a basic react native project (tutorial) on Mac, but when running emulator or deploying to a device I'm getting this:

Error: watchman--no-pretty get-sockname returned with exit code null 2016-11-09T23:34:15,970: [cli] Failed to open /Users/myuser/Library/LaunchAgents/com.github.facebook.watchman.plist for write: Not a directory

I tried to reinstall watchman from git brew install --HEAD watchman but it didn't help.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Answer 1

The directory is stored in wrong location, so remove it :

rm ~/Library/LaunchAgents

Create the directory :

mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents

than safely re-enable the mysql launch :

ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/mysql/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents

Answer 2

Ok, so the problem was I had a file ~/Library/LaunchAgents pointing to homebrew.mxcl.postgresql instead of the folder. So I just moved homebrew.mxcl.postgresql to a temp folder, deleted ~/Library/LaunchAgents, created a ~/Library/LaunchAgents folder and copied homebrew.mxcl.postgresql into it.

com.github.facebook.watchman.plist was created for the first time I ran watchman.