Re: [Tracker] [PATCH] fixing a t-s-t crasher when trackerd is not running

["Marcus Fritzsch" <fritschy googlemail com>]

On 8/2/07, Marcus Fritzsch <fritschy googlemail com> wrote:
> On 8/2/07, jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 14:07 +0200, Marcus Fritzsch wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > there are currently 2 (automatic) bug reports[1,2] for t-s-t, I tried
> > > hard to get it crashing but it did not ;).
> > >
> > > Today however, I missed starting trackerd and t-s-t crashed, end the
> > > backtrace at least seems like the ones from those reports.
> > >
> > > I added a new function to show a 'general' error and changed
> > > end_search accordingly.
> >
> > thx thats nice - have added
> >
> >
> > > PS: the odd thing: the error message is like 'Could not execute
> > > /usr/local/bin/trackerd...' - what's odd here: my tracker prefix is
> > > /opt/tracker. also tracker-search prints such a warning, where does
> > > the /usr/local/bin come from? I tried to find it but haven't yet...
> >
> >
> > tracker-service in /usr/share/dbus-1/services
> >
> > the tracker.service.in file uses the prefix to construct path
> >
> > suggest doing a make clean and then build with correct prefix so that
> > dbus can launch trackerd automatically
>
> I am doing distclean+configure to have a valid build tree and install
> every time ;)
>
> The funny thing, in that file the trackerd is noted to be in my prefix:

That funny thing happens only on one of my systems - and it is the one
that was broken very badly once... I am prety sure this is an error on
my system.

Cheers, Marcus