Same happened here, but I found out that ANY newly font will cause this problem.
For example, I was using anorexia, one of artwiz fonts (available by apt-get)
for Orage Clock in xfce-panel.
(For those who don't know, it's the clock application for Xubuntu, and I
changed the font of time display)
Adding onto severity of this situation:
Korean blogosphere is almost overloaded with warning messages telling readers:
Do NOT update libcairo2!
The majority of Korean users use Gulim.ttc and Batang.ttc, since using ones
supplied with Ubuntu (Baekmuk) isn't so great with anti-aliasing.
This
Not everyone wants to index filesystem, and when disabling tracker
should not render Nautilus' search function completely useless.
This should be fixed, back to the old way:
I go to /home/me/music/beatles in nautilus.
I press ctrl+f to search, and type in submarine.
The result should show files