Error: `fsevents` unavailable (this watcher can only be used on Darwin)

Question

I'm cloning an existing react native app in my local environment, but every time I run react-native run-ios I get the following error:

** BUILD FAILED **


The following commands produced analyzer issues:
    Analyze /Users/alydabbous/code/Dabbous-Innopay/ideal-app/node_modules/react-native/ReactCommon/yoga/yoga/YGNodeList.c normal x86_64

    Analyze /Users/alydabbous/code/Dabbous-Innopay/ideal-app/node_modules/react-native/ReactCommon/yoga/yoga/Yoga.c normal x86_64
    Analyze Base/RCTModuleMethod.mm normal x86_64
(3 commands with analyzer issues)

The following build commands failed:
    Ld build/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/MyUros.app/MyUros normal x86_64
(1 failure)

Installing build/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/TPP.app
An error was encountered processing the command (domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain, code=2):
Failed to install the requested application
An application bundle was not found at the provided path.
Provide a valid path to the desired application bundle.
Print: Entry, ":CFBundleIdentifier", Does Not Exist

Command failed: /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c Print:CFBundleIdentifier build/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/TPP.app/Info.plist
Print: Entry, ":CFBundleIdentifier", Does Not Exist

And this error in react-packager:

Loading dependency graph...(node:52097) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: `fsevents` unavailable (this watcher can only be used on Darwin)
    at new FSEventsWatcher (/Users/alydabbous/code/Dabbous-Innopay/ideal-app/node_modules/sane/src/fsevents_watcher.js:41:11)
    at createWatcher (/Users/alydabbous/code/Dabbous-Innopay/ideal-app/node_modules/jest-haste-map/build/index.js:600:23)
    at Array.map (<anonymous>)
    at HasteMap._watch (/Users/alydabbous/code/Dabbous-Innopay/ideal-app/node_modules/jest-haste-map/build/index.js:747:25)
    at _buildPromise._buildFileMap.then.then.hasteMap (/Users/alydabbous/code/Dabbous-Innopay/ideal-app/node_modules/jest-haste-map/build/index.js:279:21)
    at <anonymous>
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:189:7)
(node:52097) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 1)
(node:52097) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

I only get this error when I run react-native run-ios for a repo I cloned. But when I create a new react-native app everything works fine. I tried everything: killing the servers, uninstalling and installing node again, deleting my node_modules file, etc and still I can't solve this issue. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

For me I uninstalled watchman and then reinstalled it using brew as shown below:

npm r -g watchman 
brew install watchman