Bug 1090645

Summary:	[Gnome 3.12] Tracker fails to start: "Could not create proxy on the D-Bus session bus, Error calling StartServiceByName"
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Grey Nicholson <fedora>
Component:	tracker	Assignee:	Deji Akingunola <dakingun>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	20	CC:	dakingun, debarshir
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Description Grey Nicholson 2014-04-23 20:37:43 UTC

Description of problem:
Tracker fails to start when invoked with `tracker-control -s`.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tracker-1.0.0-1.fc20.i686 from repo rhughes-f20-gnome-3-12

How reproducible:
Every time for me.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Gnome Terminal
2. Run `tracker-control -s`

Actual results:

$ tracker-control -s
Starting miners…

(tracker-control:6346): Tracker-CRITICAL **: Could not create proxy on the D-Bus session bus, Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.Tracker1.Miner.Files: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildSignaled: Process /usr/libexec/tracker-miner-fs received signal 6

(tracker-control:6346): Tracker-CRITICAL **: Could not create proxy on the D-Bus session bus, Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.Tracker1.Miner.Extract: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process /usr/libexec/tracker-extract exited with status 1

(tracker-control:6346): Tracker-CRITICAL **: Could not create proxy on the D-Bus session bus, Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.Tracker1.Miner.Applications: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildSignaled: Process /usr/libexec/tracker-miner-fs received signal 6

(tracker-control:6346): Tracker-CRITICAL **: No D-Bus proxy found for miner 'org.freedesktop.Tracker1.Miner.Files'
  ✗ File System (perhaps a disabled plugin?)

(tracker-control:6346): Tracker-CRITICAL **: No D-Bus proxy found for miner 'org.freedesktop.Tracker1.Miner.Extract'
  ✗ Extractor (perhaps a disabled plugin?)

(tracker-control:6346): Tracker-CRITICAL **: No D-Bus proxy found for miner 'org.freedesktop.Tracker1.Miner.Applications'
  ✗ Applications (perhaps a disabled plugin?)


Expected results:

Tracker starts. Gnome Documents shows documents. `tracker-control` shows that miners are running.


Additional info:

I've had the same problem for a long time — as far as I remember, Gnome Documents has never shown any documents — so I don't think this is caused by the Gnome 3.12 Copr repo.

My home folder has 7 years of cruft and it's quite possible that I've messed something up myself. If so, the error message doesn't say what I've done or how I can fix it, in a way that I can understand.

I'd appreciate any suggestions, or anything else I can try to help diagnose the problem.

Comment 1 Grey Nicholson 2014-04-30 18:00:57 UTC

I seem to have fixed this. I found tracker's data in my home folder by running:

$ locate "\/home/*tracker*"

I deleted the relevant folders this command found:

$ rm -rf ~/.cache/tracker
$ rm -rf ~/.config/tracker/
$ rm -rf ~/.local/share/tracker/

Then I hard-reset tracker's database, and started tracker:

$ tracker-control -r
$ tracker-control -s