Watchman service is timing out waiting for a synchronization cookie file to be observed by the watcher within 20000 milliseconds about watchman

[Gruak]

I have the same issue on linux.

[zfrankdesign]

Having a similar issue. Seemed to just randomly start happening. I tried restarting watchman no luck..

React Native - 0.72.6
Metro - 0.76.8
Watchman - 2023.09.18.00

Seeing this in my terminal where i run metro. Could it be from metro being on different version than RN, not sure if thats a thing?

Waiting for Watchman `query` (10s)...
Waiting for Watchman `query` (30s)...
Waiting for Watchman `query` (50s)...
Watchman `query` finished after 60.0s.
metro-file-map: Watchman crawl failed. Retrying once with node crawler.
  Usually this happens when watchman isn't running. Create an empty `.watchmanconfig` file in your project's root folder or initialize a git or hg repository in your project.
  Error: Watchman error: watchman::QueryExecError: query failed: synchronization failed: syncToNow: timed out waiting for cookie file to be observed by watcher within 60000 milliseconds: Operation timed out. Make sure watchman is running for this project. See https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/troubleshooting.

[smitbhatiya]

Having a similar issue. Seemed to just randomly start happening. I tried restarting watchman no luck..

React Native - 0.72.6 Metro - 0.76.8 Watchman - 2023.09.18.00

Seeing this in my terminal where i run metro. Could it be from metro being on different version than RN, not sure if thats a thing?

Waiting for Watchman `query` (10s)...
Waiting for Watchman `query` (30s)...
Waiting for Watchman `query` (50s)...
Watchman `query` finished after 60.0s.
metro-file-map: Watchman crawl failed. Retrying once with node crawler.
  Usually this happens when watchman isn't running. Create an empty `.watchmanconfig` file in your project's root folder or initialize a git or hg repository in your project.
  Error: Watchman error: watchman::QueryExecError: query failed: synchronization failed: syncToNow: timed out waiting for cookie file to be observed by watcher within 60000 milliseconds: Operation timed out. Make sure watchman is running for this project. See https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/troubleshooting.

have you solved that issue or not? because I am facing same issue please give the solution for it