On Sun, 2017-04-16 at 13:41 +0100, Sam Thursfield wrote: > Hi Chris > > On 4/15/17, Chris <cpoll...@embarqmail.com> wrote: > > > > I've asked about this several times and have received, that I'm > > aware > > of, no replies. Not even one saying 'don't worry about it'. If a > > bug > > report is necessary I'd be happy to submit one. Here is what the > > latest > > shows in my syslog (please ignore other than the pertinent > > entries). > > > > https://pastebin.com/rWpuwgEJ > > > Sorry for the lack of responses about this. > I think this error occurs when the tracker-miner-fs tries to insert > duplicate information for files that are already in the store. That's > why the error says "UNIQUE constraint failed": the nie:url table > enforces that there's only one entry for a given URL, so the > duplicate > insert is rejected. > > This error is mostly harmless, but obviously it's bad that Tracker is > wasting energy trying to insert duplicate entries to the database and > filling your syslog with junk. I've seen this before but I don't know > what causes it. I guess we need to add more diagnostics to > tracker-miner-fs so that it gives more useful error output; it's the > sort of problem that never occurs when you're actually in a position > to actually debug it. > > It's possibly a compatibility issue caused when upgrading from one > version of Tracker to another ... (our automated tests don't cover > that at all at present sadly). I hate recommending this but I think > that removing the database and recreating it will fix. If you don't > have important data saved in your Tracker database try `tracker reset > --soft`, and if that doesn't fix, `tracker reset --hard`. > > There appears to be no bug for this already in Bugzilla, so please > file one if you can. And thanks for contributing to Tracker! > Sam >
Thanks for the reply Sam, I will submit the bug report and give your fix a try also. Actually, I'm not in the habit of using Tracker at all. I've not delved into its workings so far. I'll get back to you and the list when all is done. Chris -- Chris KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C 31.11972; -97.90167 (Elev. 1092 ft) 07:47:58 up 10:37, 1 user, load average: 0.28, 0.37, 0.41 Description: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS, kernel 4.4.0-72-generic
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