Re: [Tracker] strange bugs and test script

[Laurent Aguerreche <laurent aguerreche free fr>]

Le vendredi 15 septembre 2006 Ã 14:56 -0400, Samuel Cormier-Iijima a
Ãcrit :
> Yea, I thought the same thing, but it's declared with the same typo in
> tracker-utils.[hc] :-)

Yes, but we can fix it. :-)

And "extern" is missing if I remember correctly (I fix it yesterday on
my code while I worked on email indexing).


> On 9/15/06, Laurent Aguerreche <laurent aguerreche free fr> wrote:
> > Le vendredi 15 septembre 2006 Ã 18:21 +0100, Jamie McCracken a Ãcrit :
> > > Samuel Cormier-Iijima wrote:
> > > > here's the python test script i was using to find bugs in tracker. it
> > > > starts sending random stuff at the end just to make sure tracker never
> > > > segfaults or anything. however, sometimes it doesn't even get that
> > > > far. it seems that tracker has some bugs with maybe a race condition
> > > > and dbus? for me, the client will stall at some random point in the
> > > > test, but tracker keeps on running (ie it's not sending a reply). you
> > > > guys should try this script and see if it works for you....
> > >
> > > its failing on this line for me
> > >
> > > metadata = ifacem.Get('Music', file, ['audio.artist', 'audio.title',
> > > 'audio.album'])
> > >
> > > as it says "Entity with ID /home/jamie/music/Gustav Holst - Mars, the
> > > Bringer of War.ogg not found in database" in log file
> > >
> > > This would cause an exception in python and so halt the client (as its a
> > > dbus error)
> > >
> > > Fix should be to use "Files" instead of "Music" for the service
> > > parameter in metadata get method (this is a bug in tracker_db_get_id in
> > > tracker-db.c as its hardcoded to reject any service thats not "Files".)
> > >
> > > patch welcome to fix tracker_db_get_id (and tracker_db_get_file_id)
> >
> > I didn't take a look at tracker_db_get_file_id() but tracker_db_get_id()
> > uses "service_index_array" (there is a typo in sources...) and this
> > global variable isn't declared. So it is needed to add:
> >
> > extern char    *service_index_array[];
> >
> > at the top of file tracker-db.c
> >
> >
> >
> > > jamie.
> > >
> > >
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