Re: [Tracker] tracker-miner-fs crash?

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 17:14 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 17:08, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe<tshepang gmail com> wrote:

> > > Auwch, this is memory corruption in the gslice magazine allocator.

This new issue isn't related to the corruption btw. But right that you
can't continue with fatal-criticals unless this new issue is fixed.

> > > We'll need to you to run valgrind with
> > >
> > > export G_SLICE=always-malloc
> > > export G_DEBUG=gc-friendly
> > >
> > > And reproduce to find this issue
> > >
> > > You can also set G_DEBUG=fatal-criticals so that we can find where the
> > > criticals are coming from. If we are lucky those criticals are related
> > > to the memory corruption. Meaning that we have good assertions ;-)
> >
> > running:
> >
> > $ G_SLICE=always-malloc G_DEBUG=fatal-criticals valgrind
> > --leak-check=full --show-reachable=yes --leak-resolution=high -v
> > --log-file=valgrind.log /usr/libexec/tracker-miner-fs
> >
> > produces a quick crash:
> >
> > [snip]
> > Tracker-Message: Starting next miner...
> > (tracker-miner-fs:23552): Tracker-DEBUG: URN '(null)' (mount point:

Owk, so your device's URN is NULL. That's probably why I'm not seeing
this here. 

Can you reproduce this in gdb instead and give me a a copypaste of what
thread apply all bt in gdb tells you?

> > urn:nepomuk:datasource:9291a450-1d49-11de-8c30-0800200c9a66) was not
> > reported to be mounted, but now it is, updating state
> > (tracker-miner-fs:23552): Tracker-DEBUG: Setting up mount point
> > 'urn:nepomuk:datasource:9291a450-1d49-11de-8c30-0800200c9a66'
> > Tracker-Message: Crawling recursively directory '/usr/share/applications'
> >
> > Tracker-CRITICAL **: Could not initialize currently active mount
> > points: 1.345: syntax error, undefined variable
> > aborting...
> > Aborted
>
> and now with --track-origins=yes, find attached

That regretfully doesn't help to track this issue.


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