Re: [Tracker] tracker-extract not being restarted

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 11/05/14 16:13, Ralph Böhme wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this is somehat a follow up to <https://mail.gnome.org/archives/tracker-list/2014-March/msg00052.html>.
>
>    "Shouldn't we restart tracker-extract if it crashes?
>     I remember one of the reasons moving the data extraction process into
>     a separate tool was to be more resilient."
>
> Looks like on a system tracker-extract hangs and/or crashes and Tracker never recovers. tracker-control -S 
> keeps reporting tracker-extract as being disabled/not running:
>
> # tracker-control -S
> Store:
> 09 May 2014, 14:32:47:  ?     Store                 - Idle
>
> Miners:
> 09 May 2014, 14:32:47:    1%  File System           - Crawling recursively
> directory 'file:///foo/bar'
> 09 May 2014, 14:32:47:  ?     Extractor             - Not running or is a
> disabled plugin
> 09 May 2014, 14:32:47:  ?     Applications          - Idle
>
> This is with Tracker 1.0.1.
>
> It's easily reproducible by sending tracker-extract a SIGKILL.

I've noticed this too.

I spoke to Carlos about it and we thought about adding a watcher of some 
kind in tracker-miner-fs.

Though I am not sure if this is the best way forward. We have the same 
problem with tracker-miner-fs itself and it's less noticed because it 
will self instantiate on DBus API calls. That's why we never had the 
problem before with tracker-extract.

Carlos any comment?

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Regards,
Martyn

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