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.
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