backport tracker 0.6.6

0.6.4 is already in the archive. We have some feedback in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/gutsy-backports/+bug/176102/comments/5

But more testing is appreciated.

The tracker 0.6.4-1ubuntu1~0ppa2 in [1] is a backport of the one uploaded to the archive (changes in a patch to fix an infinite loop which was not included in ppa1)

Please test it and report back!

[1] https://launchpad.net/~pochu/+archive

I've been using tracker 0.6.4 ~0ppa1 a couple of days with no problems. I haven't actively pressed the application to extremities to see how it performs, but I'll try that later if/when I find the time.

For now, I thought I'd just say that I haven't seen ~0ppa2 for download anywhere...

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/+bug/149772/comments/5

John, could we get this in? I've seen some positive feedback and no negative one, and the package builds fine.

Thanks in advance.

Ok, so i've updated my tracker to ver. 0.6.4 from pochu repository, and tracker was still sometimes eating 100% my CPU (not exacly 100, when i run ie. thunderbird they must share cpu ;-)) yesterday i have deleted both ~/.cache & ~/.config/tracker directories. Now with a fresh cache & settings its looks lite tracker working fine (i mean not eating cpu). I will perform more test and give feedback in this bug.

Thanks for the backport! I installed it, but can't say I'm satisfied though.. On startup the cpu-usage is high, so I restarted it (ok). But I still have the problem with tracker not showing hits! if I search for file names, tracker gives me no hits, while the files are there! (and status = indexing completed)

There's also bug in the preferences on how much text to index per file.

But as I read the post above, I'll try deleting these to, and see how it goes to morrow.

junior wrote:
> Thanks for the backport! I installed it, but can't say I'm satisfied
> though.. On startup the cpu-usage is high, so I restarted it (ok). But I
> still have the problem with tracker not showing hits! if I search for
> file names, tracker gives me no hits, while the files are there! (and
> status = indexing completed)
>
> There's also bug in the preferences on how much text to index per file.
>
> But as I read the post above, I'll try deleting these to, and see how it
> goes to morrow.
>

Did you run a reindex? If not, please do it, since tracker 0.6.3 created a bad
database.

trackerd -R

Jepp, that fixed it :) But the bug with the amount of text to be indexed per file still persists.

So thanks again! Finally tracker is usable! And I LOVE it!! hehe

For me build fails in Gutsy due to missing build-dep: libexempi-dev.

Thanks Jérôme. *wondering why it built in the ppa*

The attached .dsc and .diff.gz build fine in a gutsy pbuilder.

Emilio: we could also backport exempi form Hardy, that way it would be a backport without source change.

I filed a backport request for exempi: bug 187102.

I backported everything to my ppa, works fine for me. bug 187102 needs to be processed first.

Overall this backport looks good, but can someone please clarify on the reindexing/high-cpu thing above? Do users need to take some sort of action upon the upgrade otherwise tracker will chew CPU or something?

Things seem to be working fine for me.

I run the backport by just adding the line
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pochu/ubuntu gutsy main
to my repositories...and installing from synaptic.
i also deleted the directory ~/.local/share/tracker to be sure and then restarted my pc.

after reboot i tried a search and tracker started reindexing.
It took a couple of minutes and used some CPU but never much (under 30% always and normaly under 10%)
I have a dell XPS 1330..Intel Centrino Dual Core and 2GB of RAM.
I had about 500MB of files to index plus some other GB or two of music

Now it seems to be working well using almost no cpu and 13MB of memory.

Thanks i am happy with the fix.

+1 from me, I did not find any issues with this backport after 20 days of usage. This version of tracker fixes a lot of indexing issues and high cpu usage bugs and improves the overall usage of tracker, it would be great to have it.

I did not have to delete any folder or trigger any reindexing to have a working tracker after update.

Ok, I've approved the exempi backport. Can everyone verify again that the latest tracker version in Hardy is still tested and valid for backport? If so, then let's do it!

I backported 0.6.6 to my ppa, it works fine for me.

I got good feedback from one user and it has worked fine for me.

Can someone confirm these are the steps to take

1) set up repos
2) delete ~/.config/tracker/*
3) delete ~/.cache/tracker/*
4) delete ~/.local/share/tracker/*
5) install tracker 0.6.4
6) reboot
7) re-index (exactly how is this done?)

Thanks.

I just realised these are hardy repos here https://launchpad.net/~pochu/+archive

anything for gusty 7.10?

I see that after upgrading to the latest that it starts at boot yet in my sessions dialog i see it is unticked.... so where is the setting now to turn trackerd off and on at boot? Since it seems not to be controlled by sessions. I see a tracker-applet in sessions ... whats that?

sefs wrote:
> I just realised these are hardy repos here
> https://launchpad.net/~pochu/+archive
>
> anything for gusty 7.10?
>

There's Gutsy packages there...

Packages for gutsy are available here, https://launchpad.net/~jerome-guelfucci/+archive , I've been using this for monthes without any particular issue, I think it's safe to backport it.

When I try to backport it, I have this error :

pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy: Depends: libexempi-dev (>= 1.99.2) which is a virtual package.

Isn't it a bit hazardous to mark this bug as confirmed thus ?

Valentin Rocher wrote:
> When I try to backport it, I have this error :
>
> pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy: Depends: libexempi-dev (>= 1.99.2) which
> is a virtual package.
>
> Isn't it a bit hazardous to mark this bug as confirmed thus ?

You need to backport exempi first (or alternatively remove it from
build-depends, as it's optional)

exempi has already been backported as bug 187102 but it seems it didn't hit the archive yet, although this happened monthes ago... Once exempi is released in gutsy-backprots, the backport builds fine as tested in my ppa.

Exempi is there now. Please retest and report back if there is still interest in this.

The gutsy-backports project is for backports to the Ubuntu Gutsy release. Please do not use it for other distros.