Comment 5 for bug 196011

I experienced the same bug with tracker 0.6.6, so I guess it isn't fixed yet. Also, I don't think that a freeze of over 20 seconds is related to tracker normally running in the background and can be solved by auto pause.

I suppose this was due to a broken index. "trackerd --reindex" solved the problem for me. I stumbled across many other confirmations of this bug on various forums, and some reported that reinstalling tracker did also help. I guess tracker just doesn't respond due to the broken index and then the calling app pauses for about 25 seconds.

I'm not familiar with the internals of tracker or gnome, but tracker should be more robust in cases of errors like this.