tracker broken for KDE/X/lightdm
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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tracker (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
tracker 1.6.2-0ubuntu1.1 on 16.04 could be made to work for KDE/X/lightdm
- https:/
- DBUS_SESSION_
on 16.10 it’s beyond repair:
dpkg --status tracker | egrep ^V
Version: 1.10.0-1ubuntu1
tracker reset hard && tracker daemon --start && tracker daemon --list-processes
Found process ID 23118 for 'tracker-extract'
Found process ID 23135 for 'tracker-store'
Found process ID 23145 for 'tracker-
Found process ID 23150 for 'tracker-miner-fs'
Found process ID 23155 for 'tracker-
- produces unhealthy tracker
A healthy tracker has one or two tracker entries
tracker daemon --start && tracker daemon --list-processes
Starting miners…
✓ Userguides
✓ File System
✓ Applications
✓ Extractor
Found 6 PIDs…
Found process ID 4185 for 'tracker-store'
Found process ID 4196 for 'tracker-miner-fs'
Found process ID 4201 for 'tracker-
Found process ID 4207 for 'tracker-extract'
Found process ID 4229 for 'tracker'
Found process ID 4921 for 'tracker-
16/10/Unity 8 and 16.10/GNOME/Wayland are healthy, kde is not
On login tracker kind of works, but after a while the 'tracker' entry dies and tracker is no longer with us.
There are some new fancy race conditions, too:
on reset occasionally
(tracker daemon:13618): Tracker-CRITICAL **: Could not create proxy on the D-Bus session bus, Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop
on list processes occasionally:
Could not stat() file '/proc/21722', Error when getting information for file '/proc/21722': No such file or directoryFound 5 PIDs…
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: tracker 1.6.2-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-47-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Nov 24 13:57:04 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-08-26 (89 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160720)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=screen
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: tracker
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
so the 'tracker' entries are created by follow or watch commands, so that’s not a problem
crawling, however, is broken