I get this error all the time when starting I “fix” it by doing this: find ~/src/discourse-repos/discourse/plugins/ -type l |xargs rm Is it just me? Starting CSS change watcher /home/pfaffman/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.3.8/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/gems/rb-inotify-0.11.1/lib/rb-inotify/watcher.rb:74:in `in…

Development: Too many levels of symbolic links - Failed to watch

david (David Taylor) November 11, 2025, 5:30pm 6

I don’t have anything like that in plugin public/ directories either.

Where do these strange symlinks point? Any clues as to what they could be for?

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