File watcher failed repeatedly and has been disabled

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Since an unexpected power loss a while back (my computer just went off) I'm getting this pesky warning from Android Studio at launch:

/!\ External file changes sync may be slow

File watcher failed repeatedly and has been disabled

I understand the message, but I have no idea what I should do about it. Apart from that warning I have not experienced system instability. Running on Ubuntu 20.04.

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If you go to Help - Collect Logs and Diagnostic Data you'll get a zip file containing (among others) idea.log, which should contain the error.

Probably you'll find this: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.33' not found` which indicates some component is compiled against a libc version newer than what is in Ubuntu 20.04. If this is the error you get there's not much you can do except upgrading Ubuntu to a newer version.

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