Re: [Tracker] No contents indexing taking place

[Karl Relton <karllinuxtest relton ntlworld com>]

On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 23:19 +0000, Karl Relton wrote:
> I've found out some more - the tracker-extract process is in fact being
> started (by dbus), but for some reason the initial call to it is getting
> an unknown interface error. Subsequent calls to it (while it is still
> running), will work however.
>
> By watching what processes are running, I can see the tracker-extract
> process start, and then gracefully exit 30 seconds later. The first file
> change that resulted in its invocation doesn't get any indexing done
> (because it gets the unknown interface error), but if I change the file
> again (or another file) before the 30 second inactivity timeout then
> indexing will occur with respect to that second change.
>
> So the problem seems to be that first call. Not sure if it is an error
> (or timeout) in dbus, or an error in the way
> tracker-miner-fs/tracker-extract are trying to interact with each other.
>
> Could it be that tracker-extract is taking too long to register the
> interface (make it available) in dbus?
I believe I have diagnosed and proposed a fix for the problem. Please
see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671314 for a full write
up and proposed patch that fixes it.