The Tracker or time to kill a beagle

avx · Advocate Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 2152

I merged the latest version of gnome-common in portage, which is

Gergan Penkov · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 11:12 am Post subject:

Well Jamie has fixed the missing .desktop-file

I don't have such problems with dbus, I started it via tracker-stats and it is running, but I have the latest dbus (masked), this and the messages you have show, that probably the masked version is required dependancy:

tchak · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 11:34 am Post subject:

Hi,
I tried tracker 0.4 and now 0.5.1 and I have same problem. I eats 100% cpu until it index all data... Even Beagle have newed done something like this on my system... Any Ideas? It is build with inotify support and with -fam USE flag....
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Gergan Penkov · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 11:49 am Post subject:

Hm I should probably rebuild my DB from scratch, to see if this happens, sure if it is the only active process it will take 100% on first indexing, but I never had any slow-downs in the GUI, because of this. In fact the indexers should be run with nice=19, making it barely impossible to kill the cpu. In the moment it just sits down here and does not eat any resources.
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avx · Advocate Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 2152

So, I unmasked dbus-1 and dbus-glib and build them, but it didn't help, yet. revdep-rebuild is running now, so I build everything again which has a dbus-dependencie.

As for the ressource-question, I don't have the problem. I started indexing in turbo-mode and there are no problems at all.

I'll report if revdep is finished.

Gergan Penkov · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:56 pm Post subject:

Have you restarted the system wide dbus-service in /etc/init.d/?
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Is this question adressed to me? If so, yes I did.

As I said, I built dbus-1, dbus-glib, gstreamer and run revdep-rebuild - everthiny compiled clean. Then I killed everything related to dbus, stopped dbus-service, changed to a non-X-shell, started dbus-service again, emerged tracker again and then started X with the same settings as stated above. Still no go.

Then I killed trackerd while being in X and started `trackerd --enable-debug` which gives:

Gergan Penkov · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 2:01 pm Post subject:

Also there is a bug in the tracker, the dbus_connection_set_exit_on_disconnect should not be called with NULL as connection, this is what happens in your case, as to why this happens - I don't have any ideas ATM, also it fails at dbus_bus_get on your side, but why?
the relevant source is src/trackerd/tracker-dbus.c
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tchak · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 3:08 pm Post subject:

Hi,
After I tried to remove my old DB and reboot to new session with 0.5.1 (cvs) It looks like performance are now much better

I steel have a question: what is stemmer and stopword list ? What is it for?

Thank's
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Gergan Penkov · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 3:20 pm Post subject:

well the stemmer, devides the word in prefixes, suffixes, stems and such - so it makes your search language-aware and makes searching much more correct.
I don't know what exactly is the stop-word list, probably it is a list of words, which should not be indexed at all, as they are expected to appear everywhere...
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avx · Advocate Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 2152

I read on the mailing-list archive, that you reported the error(thanks for that) and that Jamie said he fixed it in cvs.

So, I removed tracker, deleted the whole cvs-sources, checkedout again, built but the error remains the same :/

Very "funny" things are going on here, to make it short:

running trackerd -> error as above, but still running(checked with ps)
running dbus-launch trackerd -> works
+ running tracker-stats -> error
+ running dbus-launch tracker-stats -> error
(same for tracker-search(-tool))

running tracker-stats(while trackerd not running!) -> error
running dbus-launch tracker-stats -> works
running tracker-search -> error
running dbus-launch tracker-search -> works
(same for tracker-search-tool)

Interesting: when I run one of the working commands above and then trying to connect with one of the others, it gives an error again - doesn't matter, if w/ or w/o dbus-launch.

EDIT:
It's getting more interesting :twisted:

So, I quitted X, killed trackerd and every instance of dbus and then stopped(!) /etc/init.d/dbus.

Startet X, issued trackerd --enable-debug(temporarily deleted it from my fvwm-start) and...it runs - without dbus-launch.
Issuing tracker-stats works and trackerd doesn't die.
Issuing tracker-search works, but after spitting out the results, trackerd dies(I'll edit it soon, sitting on my desk and tracker-testing is only at my notebook right now).

EDIT as promised:

Gergan Penkov · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 10:42 pm Post subject:

Well, no the error I reported was only the part, which handles the failure, also there was a function call to dbus with null-pointer, but this concerns what happens after your problem. Also at least now, there should be no such message:

avx · Advocate Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 2152

I think we narrow it down...

vitae · Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:11 pm Post subject:

hi everybody,

I just installed tracker to replace beagle. It is quite fast. Unfortunately it doesn`t scan gaim and evolution files

well my question is about the nautilus tagging feature.

what do i have to install to use that like mentioned in the link

http://www.madman2k.net/comments/56/

there is no python-nautilus in portage.

thnx

vitae

Gergan Penkov · Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:19 pm Post subject:

vitae · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 12:52 pm Post subject:

i found the sources. i think an ebuild should not be so difficult.

here is the link:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/nautilus-python/0.4/

vitae · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 3:18 pm Post subject:

okay... you need also masked dbus-python and masked dbus-glib, which need the new masked dbus-1.*

it is a lil bit to experimental for me, but you can easily compile nautilus-python without problems.

agnitio · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 136

Tracker is now in portage and i tried to install it, unfortunately, it wouldn't compile. Has anyone else experienced this?

Gergan Penkov · Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:03 pm Post subject:

try with MAKEOPTS="-j1" - I could not reproduce it, but there were already some ppl reporting the same problem.
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agnitio · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 136

Confirmed, that solved the problem. My normal MAKEOPTS are "-j3", maybe that is the difference between our systems and the reason why you cannot reproduce?

UPDATE:
Now I seem to have a problem with integrating Tracker with deskbar applet, I tried the script posted in this thread, and ALL of the updated ones on the mailing list, but no-one works, they all fail on the same line, wich is line 11 in the older scripts and 15 in the newer, wich contains "try:", here's the error from "./deskbar-applet -w":

Voltago · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 8:36 pm Post subject:

Hi fellow Gentoo users! I've written a simple tracker frontend for KDE. Find the source, ebuilds and a few directions here.

krz · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 19

I killed my beagle too because it always starts indexing when you want to work. That's utterly annoying. Tracker is much better.

However I'm currently trying to write an ebuild for the tracker-svn: It's actually based off the ebuild from page 1. I removed all the dependencies and changed cvs to svn. But it's giving me a sandbox violation:

Gergan Penkov · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:20 am Post subject:

swimmer · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 8:40 am Post subject:

Hi all,

I installed tracker today (0.5.4-r1 on AMD64) and have a few questions:

1. I installed it both with and without the gnome useflag and in both cases I do *not* have any GUI app like tracker-search-tool :-/
EDIT: My apologies - after installing tracker a second time I actually *got* tracker-searck-tool installed. Or I did not see it the first time? :-/

2. What is the fam-flag precisely for? Does it loose it's functionality if I don't use it?

Thanks in advance
swimmer

Gergan Penkov · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 3:56 pm Post subject:

fam should not be used, for best results use the inotify backend (ie -fam) - but look at the output from configure, to make sure it is really selected, as it depends on certain versions of linux-headers/glibc and at the end tracker could fallback to polling if it does not find anything useful.
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