[Netatalk-admins] Tracker permission denied

[Daniel M. <mar...@gm...>]

I spent most of the day today setting up and troubleshooting dbus and
tracker in my Debian Bullseye environment (tracker2) to test out the
Spotlight feature in main.
This is the first time I messed around with this particular feature of
netatalk3 and it was a steep learning curve.

I can't for the life of me get it to fully work with a Ventura client.
When afpd tries to query the tracker backend I typically get this error.

afpd[1136]: Could not connect to Tracker: Failed to load SPARQL backend:
Could not open journal for writing, Permission denied

(There's a bunch of other Tracker logs marked as errors but they seem more
like info level logs.)

It works perfectly fine to operate the tracker backend with the "tracker"
CLI tool.
I can query the database and see the files names and contents indexed
properly.

I get the same result regardless of whether I use the main development
code, or the 3.1.12 stable package from Debian repos.
So either support for tracker2 has been broken for years, or something's up
with my environment.

Any ideas on how to proceed?