Trackerd hangs while indexing files

[Jerome Lacoste]

Binary package hint: tracker

Symptoms
* trackerd takes 100% CPU
* file timestamps under .cache/tracker/ not updated
* tracker-stats don't change:
-------fetching index stats---------

default : 0
Files : 12
Folders : 12
Documents : 0
Images : 0
Music : 0
Videos : 0
Text : 0
Development : 0
Other : 0
Emails : 0
EvolutionEmails : 0
KMailEmails : 0
EmailAttachments : 0
EvolutionAttachments : 0
KMailAttachments : 0
Conversations : 0
GaimConversations : 0
Applications : 242
Webhistory : 0
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I've enabled verbose logging and the last line I can see printed out before trackerd hangs are:

[...]
Watching directory /home/jerome/Code/OSS/m2/exec-maven-plugin/src/test/projects/mule-testcase/mule-2.x/distributions/server/full/target/mule-assembly-verifier-temp/mule-2.1.0-M1-SNAPSHOT/examples/loanbroker/esn/src/test/java/org/mule/example/loanbroker/esn (total watches = 64391)
Watching directory /home/jerome/Code/OSS/m2/exec-maven-plugin/src/test/projects/mule-testcase/mule-2.x/distributions/server/full/target/mule-assembly-verifier-temp/mule-2.1.0-M1-SNAPSHOT/examples/loanbroker/esn/src/main/java/org/mule/example/loanbroker/esn (total watches = 64392)
Watching directory /home/jerome/Code/OSS/m2/exec-maven-plugin/src/test/projects/mule-testcase/mule-2.x/distributions/server/full/target/mule-assembly-verifier-temp/mule-2.1.0-M1-SNAPSHOT/examples/loanbroker/bpm/src/main/java/org/mule/example/loanbroker/bpm/actions (total watches = 64393)

I've tried to restart trackerd with the -i option and to specify only looking at those files, but trackerd seemed to ignore the argument (it started indexing everything again). The command I used then was

trackerd -v 3 -s 0 -i /home/jerome/Code/OSS/m2/exec-maven-plugin/src/test/projects/mule-testcase/mule-2.x/distributions/server/full/target/mule-assembly-verifier-temp/mule-2.1.0-M1-SNAPSHOT/examples/

So as a tentative workaround I've removed /home/jerome/Code from indexing. Will see if that helps or if the problem can be reproduced. I'll post more information if needed. Let me know if you want the trackerd.log file.