Re: [Tracker] tracker not finishing reindex in latest git source on jaunty

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 06:43 +0200, Thomas Mittelstaedt wrote:
> Hallo, tracker experts,

Hi :)

> I just upgraded from ubuntu intrepid to jaunty and also fetched the
> latest git source of tracker. Unfortunately, the indexing is never
> finished but appears to block the dbus since other apps did hang with a
> certain action, which continued as normal as soon as I killed all
> tracker processes.

Just so we are sure, when you say the latest version, you mean master
right? i.e. 0.7 branch.

If you already had data on your machine, I would recommend you use:

  tracker-processes -r

This will remove all traces of any databases, etc which will be
incompatible with older versions. It will also kill all tracker
processes.

NOTE: The evolution push modules were recently disabled, but they may
STILL be installed to $prefix/lib/tracker{-0.7}/push-modules/

If you remove that directory (the push-modules) then the indexer should
be a lot more responsive until we fix the issue.

> tail -f /home/tom/.local/share/tracker/trackerd.log 
> 01 Mai 2009, 06:35:54: Tracker: Processed 1268/3852, indexed 0,
> module:'files', 01m 01s left, 29s elapsed
> 01 Mai 2009, 06:36:04: Tracker: <--- [3] DBus request to get daemon
> status
> 01 Mai 2009, 06:36:04: Tracker: ---> [3] Success, no error given
> 01 Mai 2009, 06:36:04: Tracker: Processed 1532/3852, indexed 0,
> module:'files', 01m left, 39s elapsed
> 01 Mai 2009, 06:36:14: Tracker: Processed 2404/3852, indexed 0,
> module:'files', 30s left, 50s elapsed
> 01 Mai 2009, 06:36:24: Tracker: Processed 2549/3852, indexed 0,
> module:'files', 30s left, 59s elapsed
> 01 Mai 2009, 06:36:24: Tracker: Processed 2549/3852, indexed 0,
> module:'files', 30s left, 59s elapsed
> 01 Mai 2009, 06:36:34: Tracker: Processed 3170/3852, indexed 2549,
> module:'files', 15s left, 01m 09s elapsed
> 01 Mai 2009, 06:39:19: Tracker: <--- [4] DBus request to get daemon
> status
> 01 Mai 2009, 06:39:19: Tracker: ---> [4] Success, no error given
> 01 Mai 2009, 06:39:36: Tracker: Statistics cache has expired,
> updating...
> 01 Mai 2009, 06:39:36: Tracker: New DBus request, pausing indexer
> 01 Mai 2009, 06:39:36: Tracker: State change from 'Indexing' -->
> 'Paused'
> 01 Mai 2009, 06:39:36: Tracker: Requesting statistics from database for
> an accurate signal

This log doesn't look erroneous as far as I can see. You can also use
tracker-status -fd to follow the state changes in Tracker. Progress
updates (i.e. x files out of y complete) will also be available using
this.

> Also, the user data backup mechanism seems to be broken again, since no
> ttl file was created!!

We will investigate that, thank you for mentioning it. Also note that on
the 0.7 branch the TTL import code is still being migrated as far as I
understand. So this could well be the reason why.

> any help appreciated!!

Hope this helps. If you spot anything, let us know. The 0.7 branch is
quite new be sympathetic if you find problems :)

-- 
Regards,
Martyn