GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 569444
Crashed tracker delays start of gtk+ apps
Last modified: 2010-03-11 15:02:17 UTC
If the trackerd process (or even the extract process I think) crashes, some GTK+ apps (Brasero, Sound-Juicer) take a long time to start. Others like GEdit start fine but opening the file chooser takes a lot of time. I suspect tracker's filechooser integration is causing this. Stracing those apps revealed them waiting for a time out after some "resource not available". Ideally tracker would not crash but until that day, is there a way to make the GTK integration fail less painfully?
I "solved" this problem like this: #gedit /etc/xdg/autostart/trackerd.desktop and then I changed the value here X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false (it was true)
Well this just disables running tracker right?
Yes it just disables tracker. I had this problem for 3 months (UbuntuStudio 8.04), I dint have the problem when I used sudo to run an application, so I though that the problem was something at my user`s settings. I made a second user none of these problems happen again. But I am in Linux and I dont like to stop using my first user ;) So I try to see the deferents of these 2 users , I was believing that somewhere there was the problem. So I check ~$ cat $HOME/.gtk-bookmarks at both users and everything was ok, then I look gconf at both users everything ok there too. After that I look at $HOME/.config/tracker/tracker.cfg because I find some bugs report at Ubuntu and people there said that the problem is from trackerd. But also all settings was the same for both users, then I command killall trackerd and the problem fixed at the user who has had the problem but only until next reboot. So I decided to disables trucker when I wrote this https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2007-September/001830.html ps. sorry about my English I am just a farmer for Greece :)
I aslo want to say that kde applications at my Gnome (konqueror, k3b, kaffeine, amarok etc) didnt had that problem when I used them. Only at gnome applications the problem was existed. thank you.
(In reply to comment #0) > If the trackerd process (or even the extract process I think) crashes, some > GTK+ apps (Brasero, Sound-Juicer) take a long time to start. Others like GEdit > start fine but opening the file chooser takes a lot of time. I suspect > tracker's filechooser integration is causing this. Stracing those apps revealed > them waiting for a time out after some "resource not available". > > Ideally tracker would not crash but until that day, is there a way to make the > GTK integration fail less painfully? > Hi, Do you have any real evidence that Tracker is causing you problems? GTK+ apps don't all depened on Tracker. It could be that tracker was using your system resources but there is a 25 second (or so) timeout before it starts doing anything from boot up.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7201992#post7201992 I was having the same problem after upgrading to Jaunty, I removed, then reinstalled tracker and everything's working OK now.
This is fixed in 0.7