Public bug reported: cannot remove this piece of malware. It has no use and seems to hijack cpu, disk, disk space and in general reduce system to unusable. Purging the malware "tracker-miner-fs" reduces its impact some, but it's still expensive. I mean, who uses desktop search tools anyway? Definitely not someone with several thousand source files and no interest in using a desktop to interact (that's what console is for). Definitely not when there's perfectly good app menus that (at least used to be) present.
Please purge this. Or at least make it possible to purge. It's malware. All "search tools" are malware because they eat disk space like they're the only app present and nothing else matters. They should only ever be optional. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10 Package: tracker 1.4.1-1ubuntu2.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-18.22-generic 4.2.3 Uname: Linux 4.2.0-18-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Fri Nov 20 21:34:10 2015 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-10-14 (37 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20150924) SourcePackage: tracker UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: tracker (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug wily -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to tracker in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1518526 Title: malware steals resources and is entirely useless To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/+bug/1518526/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs