Public bug reported: tracker 1.6.2-0ubuntu1.1 on 16.04 could be made to work for KDE/X/lightdm - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769715#c12 - DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS has an incorrect value
on 16.10 it’s beyond repair: dpkg --status tracker | egrep ^V Version: 1.10.0-1ubuntu1 tracker reset hard && tracker daemon --start && tracker daemon --list-processes Found process ID 23118 for 'tracker-extract' Found process ID 23135 for 'tracker-store' Found process ID 23145 for 'tracker-miner-user-guides' Found process ID 23150 for 'tracker-miner-fs' Found process ID 23155 for 'tracker-miner-apps' - produces unhealthy tracker A healthy tracker has one or two tracker entries tracker daemon --start && tracker daemon --list-processes Starting miners… ✓ Userguides ✓ File System ✓ Applications ✓ Extractor Found 6 PIDs… Found process ID 4185 for 'tracker-store' Found process ID 4196 for 'tracker-miner-fs' Found process ID 4201 for 'tracker-miner-apps' Found process ID 4207 for 'tracker-extract' Found process ID 4229 for 'tracker' Found process ID 4921 for 'tracker-miner-user-guides' 16/10/Unity 8 and 16.10/GNOME/Wayland are healthy, kde is not On login tracker kind of works, but after a while the 'tracker' entry dies and tracker is no longer with us. There are some new fancy race conditions, too: on reset occasionally (tracker daemon:13618): Tracker-CRITICAL **: Could not create proxy on the D-Bus session bus, Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.Tracker1.Miner.Extract: Timeout was reached on list processes occasionally: Could not stat() file '/proc/21722', Error when getting information for file '/proc/21722': No such file or directoryFound 5 PIDs… ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: tracker 1.6.2-0ubuntu1.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-47.68-generic 4.4.24 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-47-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Nov 24 13:57:04 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-08-26 (89 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160720) ProcEnviron: TERM=screen PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: tracker UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: tracker (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1644653 Title: tracker broken for KDE/X/lightdm To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/+bug/1644653/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs