tracker-miner-fs is taking 90% of CPU. I am using Ubuntu 20.04.
I upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 today, and after this upgrade tracker-miner-fs seems to crash and restart contiguously; pegging my CPU at 100% until I manually kill the process.
The error I'm getting in /var/log/syslog is:
Apr 28 22:23:01 evertbook5 tracker-miner-f[31182]: Could not find parent node for URI:'file:///home/evert/Music/unsorted/iTunes%20Music/Giorgio%20Moroder/E=MC2'
Apr 28 22:23:01 evertbook5 tracker-miner-f[31182]: NOTE: URI theme may be outside scheme expected, for example, expecting 'file://' when given 'http://' prefix.
Apr 28 22:23:01 evertbook5 tracker-miner-f[31182]: tracker_file_system_set_property: assertion 'file != NULL' failed
Apr 28 22:23:01 evertbook5 tracker-miner-f[31182]: tracker_file_system_set_property: assertion 'file != NULL' failed
Apr 28 22:23:01 evertbook5 tracker-miner-f[31182]: Could not find parent node for URI:'file:///home/evert/Music/unsorted/iTunes%20Music/Giorgio%20Moroder/E=MC2/08%20Evolution.mp3'
Apr 28 22:23:01 evertbook5 tracker-miner-f[31182]: NOTE: URI theme may be outside scheme expected, for example, expecting 'file://' when given 'http://' prefix.
Apr 28 22:23:01 evertbook5 tracker-miner-f[31182]: tracker_file_system_set_property: assertion 'file != NULL' failed
Apr 28 22:23:01 evertbook5 tracker-miner-f[31182]: tracker_file_system_set_property: assertion 'file != NULL' failed
Apr 28 22:23:02 evertbook5 tracker-miner-fs[31182]: **
Apr 28 22:23:02 evertbook5 tracker-miner-fs[31182]: Tracker:ERROR:../src/libtracker-miner/tracker-file-system.c:259:file_tree_lookup: assertion failed: (ptr[0] == '/')
Apr 28 22:23:02 evertbook5 tracker-miner-fs[31182]: Bail out! Tracker:ERROR:../src/libtracker-miner/tracker-file-system.c:259:file_tree_lookup: assertion failed: (ptr[0] == '/')
Apr 28 22:23:02 evertbook5 systemd[2738]: tracker-miner-fs.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT
Apr 28 22:23:02 evertbook5 systemd[2738]: tracker-miner-fs.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
Apr 28 22:23:02 evertbook5 systemd[2738]: tracker-miner-fs.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 45.
There's isntructions to permanently stop this process, but I would rather to see it work.
I'm trying to understand what the different background processes are doing on my machine as this one is freezing from time to time. I have noticed that the tracker processes (there are several of them as you can see on the screenshots) take a lot of CPU power. I also noticed that if I kill those processes, it solves the issue and nothing weird or at least nothing visible really happen on my machine.
Do you know what is exactly the use of those processes and why they are taking so much CPU power (what are they doing with all that power?) I tried to do a couple of searches online regarding the tracker processes but I can't really understand what they do. :/
Thanks in advance for you answer, I'm really eager to learn more about Linux ! :))
screenshot tracker processes :
tracker -store taking a lot of CPU power :
tracker -extract taking a lot of CPU power :
The project page mentions tracker-preferences but I don't have this command with version 2.0.3.
I remember a release when tracker was one of the innovations of Ubuntu. What happened to it?