Comment 48 for bug 131983

Re: chicken and egg..

It would appear that the underlying problem could be revealed quite easily. I would hazard a guess that we few "corner cases" have perhaps something in common - we are installing Ubuntu on already densely populated systems?

In my case, I suspect the combination of auto detection and mounting of my MS partitions (with 3.5 million files) and trackerd's attempt to index them.

Is that a fair assessment? Would trackerd attempt to do that?

If so, then it is easily replicated... create a Windows base system (XP, Vista, WIN2000 or whatever) with a few thousand dummy directories, and fill each directory with a few hundred randomly generated text files, THEN install Ubuntu and see what happens.

Is it reasonable to suggest that your testing is done on clean installations?