Re: [Tracker] more issues with indexer-split

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 10:27 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 23:20 -0400, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > > Im afraid Im unable to run latest svn
> > >
> > > trackerd dies everytime I try and search for somehting
> > >
> > > I did following:
> > >
> > > svn up
> > > make distclean
> > > make
> > > sudo make install
> > > sudo rm -rf /usr/bin/trackerd
> > > ïsudo rm -rf /usr/bin/tracker-indexer
> > > rm -rf ~/.cache/tracker
> > > rm-rf ~/.local/share/tracker
> > > trackerd -v 3 
> > >
> > > searching with tracker-search-tool crashes trackerd
> > > searching with tracker-search returns no result (when it should)
>
> I don't see this crash.
>
> Note: in the last 24 hrs, Mikael has fixed a couple of nasty issues
> which could improve your situation. Namely metadata date handling issues
> and MP3 & JPEG extractor fixes. I also changed the extractor to use
> libtracker-common functions instead of the duplicated code it was using.
>
> > > trackerd output showing it continuously outputs :
> > > Tracker-Message: Indexed 105/425, module:'evolution', 07m 13s left, 02m
> > > 22s elapsed
>
> Note: It will spit status messages out roughly every 10 seconds to keep
> the daemon and applet up to date. Even if nothing has happened.

I know but it just outputs the above continuously with no change in the
indexed count

and it does not flush to index which means I cant search for anything

> > > note I have evol email indexing disabled
>
> How have you disabled that?

tracker.cfg file in~/ .config/tracker- I set
IndexEvolutionEmails=false

Note that existing config options must be respected as otherwise
upgrading will be impossible for existing users


> I tried it with -d evolution and with the DisabledModules config option
> in the .cfg file. Both worked fine for me.
>
> > can you verify it runs correctly with reindex when evo email indeixng is
> > set to false?
>
> Yes, I have done that twice. I have no problems with the indexing or
> searching with the search tools either. I have tried this on my desktop
> and I have done this on the Nokia device too. Both work properly.
>
> Are you able to try on another machine?

nope 
> > for me it appears the index never flushes as it constantly tries to
> > index evo stuff but the indexer rejects it
>
> Hmm, if you run the daemon with -v 3 it should say when it gets to the
> evolution module if it is disabled or not.

it does not say anything about that

> You don't have the evolution mail directory in your WatchDirectoryRoots
> do you?

no

> > also can you confirm if tracker-search-tool crashes trackerd when you
> > supply a search term that does not exist in the index?
>
> Test that and with a word similar to another it suggests something
> (which shows results when I click on it) and with something completely
> incomprehensible it just says it couldn't find anything. I don't get any
> crashes.
>
> I have asked Phillip to do the same too to make sure it isn't something
> I am doing. I have a feeling it might be the content you are indexing.
>
> Does it crash for you if you index a small selection of files? If you
> could try a couple of places with only a few files in a directory that
> would really help us identify if it was content based or not.

will play some more but index file size indicate sits empty so no flushing has occurred

jamie