Tracker crawls when encountering gif and tif

Had this here too. In my home, there was a GIF file name "/home/martin/xmp:-", and tracker continously jumped between "Paused temporarily" and "Indexing in progress" on this file.
After chmod ugo-rwx on this file, tracker continues. I touched a text file named "abc:-", but tracker did not choke on this one (maybe it won't try to index this new file unless all other files in the current indexing run are through... Nevertheless, soon after re-allowing read access to the xmp:- file, tracker again choked on it.

I'll keep them lying around and see what happens.

Yep, my experience is exactly that of bug #194221, which is a duplicate of this.

This was reported [1] by Michael Biebl at the tracker mailing list. It's been discussed there and it looks like the issue has been found [2].

If we can't get 0.6.5 in Hardy due to the freeze, I'll backport a patch for this.

[1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/tracker-list/2008-February/msg00037.html
[2] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/tracker-list/2008-February/msg00054.html

This is due to exempi support being enabled which has not been well tested

I have temporarily disabled xmp extraction using imagemagick until we can get it to work reliably without creating files as its supposed to extract to stdout only

marking as fixed for time being

My fix was simply creating this file in /usr/lib/tracker/thumbnailers/image/, named "tif_thumbnailer" and "gif_thumbnailer".

#!/bin/sh
nice -n19 convert "$1" -thumbnail $3x$3 $2

I don't know why or how this fixed the problem, but it did.

This bug was fixed in the package tracker - 0.6.4-1ubuntu2

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tracker (0.6.4-1ubuntu2) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/tracker.py:
    - Added an apport hook to ignore tracker-extract crashes, since they
      are caused by setrlimit terminating tracker-extract when it raises
      it's cpu/memory limit.
  * debian/tracker.install:
    - Install tracker.py in /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/
  * debian/patches/07_disable_xmp_metadata_extracting.patch:
    - Disable xmp metadata extraction for now, as it's buggy and is causing
      tracker-extract to get stuck indexing the same file.
      Patch backported from trunk. LP: #194221.
  * debian/patches/08_fix_potential_stack_overflow.patch:
    - Fix a potential stack overflow, backported from trunk. LP: #164150.

 -- Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <email address hidden> Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:46:41 +0100