Ok, restricting trackerd to a small subset of my home directory allowed the --reindex to finish just fine. I was also then able to search.
Next I updated tracker to svn, and opened it up to my whole home directory again, and ran --reindex. Woke up this morning to a "hung" trackerd... $ tracker-status tracker-status: internal tracker error: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. $ ps -lC trackerd F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD 0 S 1000 13113 21589 2 94 19 - 12982 - pts/4 00:23:26 trackerd Looks like it indexed quite a bit before it hung though, last status report and index entry in the log: Current memory usage is 30460, word count 92908 and hits 580117 indexing #89100 - /home/kreucher/nick/house-notes.odt And last message in the log was "file changes to [...] is pausing tracker". Sending a SIGTERM to trackerd yields no response :( I don't want to clutter up this bug... shall I take this to a mailing list / or another bug instead? -- tracker-search-tool reports no result https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137873 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs