[Netatalk-admins] Spotlight search not working

[Frimann K. <la...@gm...>]

 Hi there


I had Netatalk 3.1.7 running on my Ubuntu 12.04 server. I connect to
netatalk from my Mac Os X 10.10.3 computer through AFP. I've always been
able to search on my network drives from OS X, but recently that has
failed. I tried upgrading to 3.1.8 but no dice.

The only thing I noticed is that APT was complaining about broken packages.
Some problem with Mysql-server-5.5. I'm not using sql at the moment so I
purged that. Shouldn't affect Netatalk, or would it?

When I run tracker-control I see that the tracker is stuck at
“initializing” and Applications is stuck at 2%:

I tried killing the miners and running them manually with verbose mode set
to debug by running "/usr/lib/tracker/tracker-miner-fs -v 3", showing that
Applications miner seems to be stuck in a loop and showing this message
again and again:

----------------------------------------------
28 feb 2016, 11:06:44: Tracker: tracker-backend.vala:75:
Tracker.Sparql.Backend.query(): 'select ?url ?u nfo:fileLastModified(?u)
where {   ?u a nie:DataObject ;      nie:url ?url ;      nie:url
"file:///usr/share/applications" . }'
28 feb 2016, 11:06:44: Tracker: Parent 'file:///usr/share/applications' not
indexed yet
Tracker-Message: Parent 'file:///usr/share/applications' not indexed yet
28 feb 2016, 11:06:44: Tracker: Processing file
'file:///usr/share/applications'...
28 feb 2016, 11:06:44: Tracker: Creating new item
'file:///usr/share/applications'
28 feb 2016, 11:06:44: Tracker: tracker-backend.vala:109:
Tracker.Sparql.Backend.update_async(priority:-100): 'INSERT SILENT INTO
<urn:uuid:472ed0cc-40ff-4e37-9c0c-062d78656540> {
<urn:applications-dir:%2Fusr%2Fshare%2Fapplications> a nfo:FileDataObject ,
nie:DataObject , nie:Folder ;
         tracker:available true ;
         nie:isStoredAs
<urn:applications-dir:%2Fusr%2Fshare%2Fapplications> ;
         nie:url "file:///usr/share/applications" ;
         nfo:fileLastModified "2016-02-28T10:29:51Z" .
---------------------------------------------

I tried disable-ing the applications miner by running: "
"/usr/lib/tracker/tracker-miner-fs
-v 3 -d applications” and things started to kick off finaly! Here’s the
tracker-control output:

---------------------------------------------
frimann@baldur:~$ tracker-control
Found 265 PIDs…
Found process ID 3737 for 'tracker-store'
Found process ID 4311 for 'tracker-preferences'
Found process ID 4807 for 'tracker-miner-fs'

Store:
28 feb 2016, 11:08:56:  ✓     Store                 - Idle

Miners:
28 feb 2016, 11:08:56:    0%  Applications          - Initializing
28 feb 2016, 11:08:56:  ✓     File System           - Idle
28 feb 2016, 11:08:56:  ✗     Emails                - Not running or is a
disabled plugin
----------------------------------------

And I'm again able to search my ubuntu volumes from my Mac. This is not
really a good solution since I have to run the miners manualy. Any one know
how I might go about fixing this permanently?


Kær Kveðja / Kind Regards
Frímann Kjerúlf Björnsson
GSM: +354 822-3685