Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (868 mails)

[Vadym Krevs <vkrevs@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/05/11 04:31, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Guys,
>
>     I restarted 11.4 and had a flurry of sustained hard drive activity and I 
> took
> a look at what was running in top. I was quite surprised when I found:
>
>    4955 david     39  19  319m  18m  10m R   47  0.5   0:11.26 tracker-extract
>    4666 david     20   0  192m  19m 5788 S   38  0.5   0:19.49 tracker-store
>    4550 david     39  19  279m  22m 6604 S    8  0.6   0:06.54 tracker-miner-f
>
> <panic>
> tracker-miner-f? tracker-extract? tracker-store?  Oh hell! Did my kids click on
> something they shouldn't have in Vista? (no - wait, this is my laptop and it's
> opensuse 11.4) WTF? Did I just get hit with a new firefox virus?
> </panic>
>
>     So I go do a quick search for what was installed:
>
> 22:12 alchemy:~>  rpm -qa | grep tracker
> libtracker-miner-0_10-0-0.9.38-3.6.1.x86_64
> libtracker-client-0_10-0-0.9.38-3.6.1.x86_64
> gnome-panel-applet-tracker-0.9.38-3.6.1.x86_64
> tracker-0.9.38-3.6.1.x86_64
> tracker-miner-files-0.9.38-3.6.1.x86_64
> libtracker-extract-0_10-0-0.9.38-3.6.1.x86_64
> tracker-gui-0.9.38-3.6.1.x86_64
> libtracker-sparql-0_10-0-0.9.38-3.6.1.x86_64
> nautilus-extension-tracker-tags-0.9.38-3.6.1.x86_64
> tracker-miner-evolution-0.9.38-3.6.1.x86_64
>
>     Look at what tracker says about itself:
>
> 22:13 alchemy:~>  rpm -qi tracker
> Name        : tracker                      Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 0.9.38                            Vendor: openSUSE
> Release     : 3.6.1                         Build Date: Sat 19 Feb 2011
> <snip>
> URL         : http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/
> Summary     : Powerful object database, tag/metadata database, search tool and
> indexer
> Description :
> Tracker is a powerful desktop-neutral first class object
> database, tag/metadata database, search tool and indexer.
>
> It consists of a common object database that allows entities to
> have an almost infinte number of properties, metadata (both
> embedded/harvested as well as user definable), a comprehensive
> database of keywords/tags and links to other entities.
>
> It provides additional features for file-based objects
> including context linking and audit trails for a file object.
>
> It has the ability to index, store, harvest metadata, retrieve
> and search all types of files and other first class objects.
> Distribution: openSUSE 11.4
>
>     My next thought was - gnome? What is this thing doing running when I 
> launched
> kde3? Where did it start from? More importantly - how do I get rid of it?
>
>     Then it hit me: "Is this beagle in disguise?" I watched it for another 
> couple
> of minutes and it quit.
>
>     So what is this thing? Is it worth keeping? Should I just nuke it? What is
> the collective wisdom on whether it works or is it just another waste of cpu
> cycles and index db space?
>
>     Thanks for any info you have.
The root cause is probably the same as 
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=629385.

I'd check the files in /etc/xdg/autostart/ and ensure that any .desktop 
files that correspond to gnome-only apps do not mention KDE in the value 
of  the "OnlyShowIn" property. When  I upgraded from 11.3 to 11.4, I had 
to manually edit tracker-miner-fs.desktop and  tracker-store.desktop to 
ensure tracker would not autostart under KDE 4. Of course, the next step 
was to uninstall tracker :-(

Regards,
Vadym


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Regards,
Vadym

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