Oh, tracker really creates a lot of error messages. Runnig trackerd in the Terminal: renate@renate-laptop:tracker$ trackerd | head -n 40 Tracker version 0.6.2 Copyright (c) 2005-2006 by Jamie McCracken () This program is free software and comes without any warranty. It is licensed under version 2 or later of the General Public License which can be viewed at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt Initialising tracker... Throttle level is 0 ERROR: execution of prepared query GetServiceID failed due to database disk image is malformed with return code 11 ERROR: execution of prepared query GetServiceID failed due to database disk image is malformed with return code 11 ERROR: execution of prepared query GetServiceID failed due to database disk image is malformed with return code 11 ERROR: execution of prepared query GetServiceID failed due to database disk image is malformed with return code 11 ERROR: execution of prepared query GetServiceID failed due to database disk image is malformed with return code 11 ERROR: execution of prepared query CreateService failed due to database disk image is malformed with return code 11 ERROR: CreateService uri is /usr/local/share/applications ERROR: could not get file id for /usr/local/share//applications - unable to continue indexing this file ERROR: execution of prepared query GetServiceID failed due to database disk image is malformed with return code 11 ERROR: execution of prepared query CreateService failed due to database disk image is malformed with return code 11 ERROR: CreateService uri is /usr/share//applications/gnome-btdownload.desktop ERROR: could not get file id for /usr/share//applications/gnome-btdownload.desktop - unable to continue indexing this file ERROR: execution of prepared query GetServiceID failed due to database disk image is malformed with return code 11 ERROR: execution of prepared query CreateService failed due to database disk image is malformed with return code 11 ERROR: CreateService uri is /usr/share//applications/nautilus.desktop ERROR: could not get file id for /usr/share//applications/nautilus.desktop - unable to continue indexing this file ERROR: execution of prepared query GetServiceID failed due to database disk image is malformed with return code 11 ERROR: execution of prepared query CreateService failed due to database disk image is malformed with return code 11 ERROR: CreateService uri is /usr/share//applications/gnome-panel.desktop ERROR: could not get file id for /usr/share//applications/gnome-panel.desktop - unable to continue indexing this file ERROR: execution of prepared query GetServiceID failed due to database disk image is malformed with return code 11 ERROR: execution of prepared query CreateService failed due to database disk image is malformed with return code 11 ERROR: CreateService uri is /usr/share//applications/reclevel.desktop ERROR: could not get file id for /usr/share//applications/reclevel.desktop - unable to continue indexing this file ERROR: execution of prepared query GetServiceID failed due to database disk image is malformed with return code 11 ERROR: execution of prepared query CreateService failed due to database disk image is malformed with return code 11 ERROR: CreateService uri is /usr/share//applications/network-scheme.desktop ERROR: could not get file id for /usr/share//applications/network-scheme.desktop - unable to continue indexing this file ERROR: execution of prepared query GetServiceID failed due to database disk image is malformed with return code 11 ERROR: execution of prepared query CreateService failed due to database disk image is malformed with return code 11 ERROR: CreateService uri is /usr/share//applications/gnome-sudoku.desktop