Re: [Tracker] tracker-extract not being restarted

[Ralph Böhme <rb netafp com>]

Hi!

Am 16.05.2014 um 18:18 schrieb Ralph Böhme <rb netafp com>:
> > With this in mind, it's quite bad that we don't have some sort of watchdog or way to keep it up and 
> > running. We could easily do this in tracker-miner-fs. Part of me thinks we should actually have a 
> > tracker-control --daemon which watches all process and keeps some sort of journal / log going and also 
> > maintains processes like tracker-extract keep running. I should add, this is something that nearly EVERY 
> > embedded solution does itself with some script which keeps miner-fs running (not even tracker-extract), 
> > because there is no other way to guarantee Tracker is there to catch all events.
>
> Ok, thanks. So taking up on this approach I wrote two Solaris SMF service manifests (resembles systemd) for 
> tracker-miner-fs and tracker-extract. This works in that it restarts crashing tracker-extract and then 
> tracker-extract continues indexing.
>
> Unfortunately this doesn't work for files that crash it reproducibly as you mention below:
>
> > The only downsides I see are repeated attempts causing a circular problem with tracker-extract.
>
> Definitely. For uses with possibly many files causing crashes this renders Tracker useless.

Example:
http://pastebin.com/XrTBuLky

A single PDF that causes tracker-extract to crash in libpoppler again and again. I'm running tracker-extract 
and tracker-miner-fs via Solaris SMF (think systemd) and that keeps restarting tracker-extract which keeps 
crashing. :(

-Ralph