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tracker package

  1. Bug #146243
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 146243

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dkg (dkg0) wrote : confirmation

I'm seeing this problem with tracker 0.6.3-0ubuntu3 on a freshly-updated gutsy install as well.

in my case, the logs are filled with:

30 Oct 2007, 17:43:19:732 - ERROR: unknown service Applications
30 Oct 2007, 17:43:19:732 - ERROR: unknown service Applications
30 Oct 2007, 17:43:19:736 - ERROR: unknown service Applications
30 Oct 2007, 17:43:19:737 - ERROR: unknown service Applications
30 Oct 2007, 17:43:19:737 - ERROR: unknown service Applications
30 Oct 2007, 17:43:19:737 - ERROR: unknown service Applications
30 Oct 2007, 17:43:19:737 - ERROR: unknown service Applications
30 Oct 2007, 17:43:19:737 - ERROR: unknown service Applications
30 Oct 2007, 17:43:19:737 - ERROR: unknown service Applications
30 Oct 2007, 17:43:19:738 - ERROR: unknown service Applications

it rapidly exhausts the couple hundred megs left free in /home/ on one machine, and i need to kill it and clean it up for the machine to work properly:

killall trackerd
> ~/.local/share/tracker/tracker.log

Seems like there are several problems here:

 * writing the same error message every thousandth of a second is bad policy -- what about "last message repeated N times", the way debian's sysklogd package does it?
 * allowing the log to grow to arbitrary size is also bad policy -- what about piping it through something sensible like svlogd from the runit suite?
 * running "trackerd --reindex" just spews the same error messages to the console, so that doesn't seem to help.

Suggestions?