[opensuse] where do I turn tracker off at?
First, Beagle came along and made a hog of itself. Then Nepomuk came along and just kept everything to itself, letting me have a microscopic scrap of resources every once in a great while. Now, tracker shows up and hijacks my system when I'm working. The tracker gang, led by tracker-miner-fs, turns up after login and takes over my system as they search and index files like Beagle and Nepomuk. And as with those other two, the tracker gang does it's thing while I am busy and slows my work to a crawl or stalls it completely. The man pages say tracker is started by the .desktop config file. There is no .desktop config file. I've looked in every config file I can think of and none start tracker. THe worst thing about tracker, as is the worst thing with beagle and nepomuk, and cron jobs like suse.de-updatedb, etc., is that they always, without fail, choose to do their more important work while I'm working and never at idle times, like late at night. I want tracker to stop. I don't need it. It is severely interfering with work. So, Does Anyone Know Where, in which file, is the tracker gang started up? And if I delete it, will it go kamikaze and break the system or other apps, like so (too!) many other rpm-installed apps do? And BTW, why is it that beagle, nepomuk, tracker, et cetera are always installed and set to run at the most inopportune times by default? There's a trend here that suggests that someone's been reading way too much BOFH and that there will be many more of those hijacking searcher/indexers to come. == jd While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
* j debert <jdebert@garlic.com> [01-01-70 11:34]:
First, Beagle came along and made a hog of itself. Then Nepomuk came along and just kept everything to itself, letting me have a microscopic scrap of resources every once in a great while. Now, tracker shows up and hijacks my system when I'm working.
ranting removed .... (mostly, jeeshhh)
I want tracker to stop. I don't need it. It is severely interfering with work.
So, Does Anyone Know Where, in which file, is the tracker gang started up? And if I delete it, will it go kamikaze and break the system or other apps, like so (too!) many other rpm-installed apps do?
Have you no control? rpm -e tracker appears to be a gnome application, but you give no information about your system and software base and this is the best my crystal ball will do on such short notice (might be better in a week or two). Have you done any research into your problem that might reveal the location of the program, it's configuration files, ... ? You might just be able to help yourself
And BTW, why is it that beagle, nepomuk, tracker, et cetera are always installed and set to run at the most inopportune times by default? There's a trend here that suggests that someone's been reading way too much BOFH and that there will be many more of those hijacking searcher/indexers to come.
Guess you do have no control. :^) ps: please make an effort to control your ranting. It is not very flattering and doesn't instill the desire to provide help. Have a nice day ... -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 28 May 2010 16:35:28 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* j debert <jdebert@garlic.com> [01-01-70 11:34]: ...
And BTW, why is it that beagle, nepomuk, tracker, et cetera are always installed and set to run at the most inopportune times by default?
@ j debert That was once few releases ago, and since then desktop searches, man updates, etc, are not running by default, provided that you did fresh install, not system updates. If you do system updates from version to version then you keep alive settings that you don't like.
There's a trend here that suggests that someone's been reading way too much BOFH and that there will be many more of those hijacking searcher/indexers to come.
See above.
Guess you do have no control. :^)
ps: please make an effort to control your ranting. It is not very flattering and doesn't instill the desire to provide help.
@ Patrick True. I would quote mail list netiquette, but it is so twisted for some time. Your sentence gives the gist of older version.
Have a nice day ...
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On Fri, 28 May 2010 19:51:29 -0700 j debert <jdebert@garlic.com> wrote:
On 05/28/2010 02:35 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
rpm -e tracker
so...
that's the only solution?
Thanks!
No, it's not the only solution, but since you won't help us by supplying some information as Patrick suggested, why should we help you? And as Rajko said, you've probably brought this problem on yourself so if you want help, then give us something to work with. What have you tried to get rid of tracker? Where have you searched both for that specific problem and for information about your distribution and how it operates. In linux you should learn something about how to evaluate system performance instead of leaving it up to some moneygrubbers in Redmond. -- Tom Taylor - retired penguin openSuSE 11.3-M7 x86_64 KDE 4.4.3, FF 3.6.4 claws-mail 3.7.6 linxt-AT-comcast.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2010-05-28 at 17:35 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* j debert <> [01-01-70 11:34]:
So, Does Anyone Know Where, in which file, is the tracker gang started up? And if I delete it, will it go kamikaze and break the system or other apps, like so (too!) many other rpm-installed apps do?
Have you no control?
rpm -e tracker
appears to be a gnome application, but you give no information about your system and software base and this is the best my crystal ball will do on such short notice (might be better in a week or two).
It is not a default installed gnome app, it is extra, and from the OBS. Thus, not needed. At least, not in 11.2. * tracker: Tracker is a tool designed to extract information and metadata about your personal data so that it can be searched easily and quickly - 0.7.28 [home:/dmitry_serpokryl:/Enlightenment-cvs-core-metapackage] - 0.8.0 [GNOME:/Apps] I don't have it installed. Perhaps the OP is using factory? Or an updated gnome? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkwA7SEACgkQtTMYHG2NR9U8owCffN6VqIBLU12wy8t1D2cjJ/go Yk4An3JghYNAnASHQUjb0sSKmCXWuaw/ =fScg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Sorry, folks. Rotten week capped off by a worse Friday. I was frustrated that there was no accurate info at hand and that what documentation was there was just plain wrong. I was just hoping for some crumb of info to get headed in the right direction. I don't know how it got installed, perhaps as a dep of something else I added but the matter is moot now as the power supply committed suicide and took out everything else as well. As an aside: Never, ever buy or use a power supply that uses fans WITHOUT ball bearings or allegedly has "ball bearings" but is noisy. Spend the extra money for a good power supply with fans that use real, authentic ball bearings. It's worth it. == jd I'm going to live forever, or die trying! -- Spider Robinson -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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