asked 2017-09-21 00:41:02 +0200
Recently I have run into some tracker issues. I have found a solution, and I am documenting it here in an answer for other users.
Images missing from the gallery or in wrong order; music files missing from the media player; wrong metadata (image size, duration...). Music player crashes, maybe.
answered 2017-09-21 00:42:36 +0200
Run ps aux | grep -v grep | grep tracker-extract from a terminal. On a working system, you should see a line of text that shows that the process /usr/libexec/tracker-extract is running. If you see nothing instead, it is a confirmation that this is the problem that affects you.
tracker-extract, the process responsible for extracting metadata from audio and image files, choked on some malformed files and crashed.
Run manually /usr/libexec/tracker-extract -v 3. This runs the metadata extractor with debugging output enabled. From there you can catch errors: in my case, a few files were causing a "Floating Point Exception". When I removed these files and restarted the phone, the indexing worked again.
You should contact @abranson and provide the files so issue can be fixed. Can you upload those files somewhere?
Damien Caliste ( 2017-10-12 08:38:29 +0200 )editI have uploaded such file to Google Drive. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RQw7vph0WsM7NTOe-h3wHYTDrHRBQzxK Damien, do you know how to contact @abranson ? When running the command above it also gives me me Floating Point Exception error.
dedrozeba ( 2017-11-07 15:47:04 +0200 )edit@dedrozeba, I've pinged him on IRC (freenode channel #sailfishos if you want to give a look). Let him have time to answer. I misspell his pseudo on TJC, he is @Andy Branson.
Thank you very much for taking time to provide faulty files, that's great!
Damien Caliste ( 2017-11-07 16:03:58 +0200 )editAsked: 2017-09-21 00:41:02 +0200
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