Guys,
I just had a go with the latest cvs of tracker and came across a,
probably unlikely, bug when using it on a fuse mounted filesystem. I
have my home directory mounted using encfs with fuse and so currently
there is no mmap allowed ( I think this is a limitation of fuse in
general)
Trackerd dies when it tries to mmap one of the files in the database and
then goes into a loop segfaulting over and over again. Perhaps it should
check first then drop out with an error?
I have to add that I am not 100% sure this is what the problem is but
moving ~/.Tracker
off to a normal filesystem did fix it!
The relevant part of the strace of trackerd is below:
open("/home/johnc/.Tracker/databases/Files.crtmp/depot", O_RDWR|O_CREAT,
0644) =
4
fcntl64(4, F_SETLKW, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) =
0
ftruncate(4, 0) = 0
fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
lseek(4, 0, SEEK_SET) = 0
write(4, "[depot]\n\f\0\0\00014\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0t\0\0\0\0\0\0"...,
48) = 48
lseek(4, 48, SEEK_SET) = 48
write(4, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"...,
68) = 68
lseek(4, 0, SEEK_SET) = 0
read(4, "[depot]\n\f\0\0\00014\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0t\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 48)
= 48
mmap2(NULL, 116, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 4, 0) = -1 ENODEV (No
such de
vice)
close(4) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
Thanks
john
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John Cooper
Systems Administrator, THUS plc
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