Re: [Tracker] No contents indexing taking place

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 01/03/12 08:39, Karl Relton wrote:
> Tracker 0.12 in Ubuntu Precise Pangolin doesn't seem to be indexing any
> file contents at all these days - not even words in plain text files.
>
> But I see in tracker-miner-fs.log :
>
> 29 Feb 2012, 21:18:57: Tracker: tracker-backend.vala:84:
> Tracker.Sparql.Backend.query_async(): 'SELECT ?s WHERE { ?s nie:url
> "file:///home/parents/Documents/how_about3.txt"}'
> 29 Feb 2012, 21:18:58: Tracker: Processing file
> 'file:///home/parents/Documents/how_about3.txt'...
> 29 Feb 2012, 21:18:58: Tracker: Processed 0/0, estimated unknown time
> left, less than one second elapsed
> 29 Feb 2012, 21:18:58: Tracker: Loading extractor rules...
> (/usr/share/tracker/extract-rules)
> 29 Feb 2012, 21:18:58: Tracker:   Loaded rule '10-abw.rule'
>   <... snip ...>
> 29 Feb 2012, 21:18:58: Tracker:   Loaded rule '90-text-generic.rule'
> 29 Feb 2012, 21:18:58: Tracker: Extractor rules loaded
> 29 Feb 2012, 21:19:00: Tracker: Could not process
> 'file:///home/parents/Documents/how_about3.txt':
> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface
> `org.freedesktop.Tracker1.Extract' on object at
> path /org/freedesktop/Tracker1/Extract

That certainly looks like a broken install.

Out of interest, can you start the tracker-extract process manually and 
does it fix the issue?

  /usr/libexec/tracker-extract -v 3

Also, you don't have older Tracker versions installed on your machine do 
you (that could conflict API wise)?

> I guess that UknownMethod message is bad news, stopping the extractor
> from actually being called.

Indeed.

> What would cause this - is there some dbus configuration file missing? I
> see the interface is defined in /usr/share/tracker/tracker-extract.xml
> (the same as in oneiric, as far as I can tell).

Presumably this file is in place too and points to the right binary:

  /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Tracker1.Extract.service


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Regards,
Martyn

Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.