Ubuntu 20.04.1 tracker-miner errors in Syslog
New install of 20.04.1 running only pi.hole and unifi controller software. It’s Ubuntu desktop, but I’m basically running it headless.
I’ve noticed that I’m getting this set of tracker-miner related errors in syslog about twice a minute. I don’t really care if the tracker runs, although I don’t think I’m actually using it at all. But at a minimum I’d like to decrease the verbosity so I don’t see all of these errors.
I’ve looked around at disabling these services, but haven’t found anything that works yet, including trying to mask them via:
systemctl --user mask tracker-store.service tracker-miner-fs.service tracker-miner-rss.service tracker-extract.service tracker-miner-apps.service tracker-writeback.service
I tried to fix the XDG user directory location by running
xdg-user-dirs-update
Then editing user-dirs.dirs to modify the path names:
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
To
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="/home/matt/Downloads"
But that also doesn’t seem to work.
Any thoughts on how to address this on a relatively new and clean Ubuntu desktop install?
cat /var/log/syslog | grep tracker:
Oct 9 08:28:17 pihole2 systemd[1034]: tracker-store.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
Oct 9 08:28:17 pihole2 systemd[1034]: tracker-miner-fs.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 12.
Oct 9 08:28:17 pihole2 tracker-miner-f[1972]: Set scheduler policy to SCHED_IDLE
Oct 9 08:28:17 pihole2 tracker-miner-f[1972]: Setting priority nice level to 19
Oct 9 08:28:17 pihole2 tracker-store[1973]: Cannot initialize database: Could not open sqlite3 database:'/home/pihole/.cache/tracker/meta.db': unable to open database file
Oct 9 08:28:17 pihole2 systemd[1034]: tracker-store.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Oct 9 08:28:17 pihole2 systemd[1034]: tracker-store.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 9 08:28:17 pihole2 tracker-miner-f[1972]: Unable to get XDG user directory path for special directory &DOCUMENTS. Ignoring this location.
Oct 9 08:28:17 pihole2 tracker-miner-f[1972]: Unable to get XDG user directory path for special directory &MUSIC. Ignoring this location.
Oct 9 08:28:17 pihole2 tracker-miner-f[1972]: Unable to get XDG user directory path for special directory &PICTURES. Ignoring this location.
Oct 9 08:28:17 pihole2 tracker-miner-f[1972]: Unable to get XDG user directory path for special directory &VIDEOS. Ignoring this location.
Oct 9 08:28:17 pihole2 tracker-miner-f[1972]: Unable to get XDG user directory path for special directory &DOWNLOAD. Ignoring this location.
Oct 9 08:28:17 pihole2 tracker-miner-f[1972]: Unable to get XDG user directory path for special directory &DOCUMENTS. Ignoring this location.
Oct 9 08:28:17 pihole2 tracker-miner-f[1972]: Unable to get XDG user directory path for special directory &MUSIC. Ignoring this location.
Oct 9 08:28:17 pihole2 tracker-miner-f[1972]: Unable to get XDG user directory path for special directory &PICTURES. Ignoring this location.
Oct 9 08:28:17 pihole2 tracker-miner-f[1972]: Unable to get XDG user directory path for special directory &VIDEOS. Ignoring this location.
Oct 9 08:28:17 pihole2 dbus-daemon[1045]: [session uid=998 pid=1045] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Tracker1' unit='tracker-store.service' requested by ':1.49' (uid=998 pid=1972 comm="/usr/libexec/tracker-miner-fs " label="unconfined")
Oct 9 08:28:17 pihole2 systemd[1034]: tracker-store.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 4.
Oct 9 08:28:17 pihole2 tracker-store[1982]: Cannot initialize database: Could not open sqlite3 database:'/home/pihole/.cache/tracker/meta.db': unable to open database file
Oct 9 08:28:17 pihole2 systemd[1034]: tracker-store.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Oct 9 08:28:17 pihole2 systemd[1034]: tracker-store.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 9 08:28:17 pihole2 tracker-miner-f[1972]: Couldn't create new Files miner: 'Failed to load SPARQL backend: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying'
Oct 9 08:28:17 pihole2 systemd[1034]: tracker-miner-fs.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Oct 9 08:28:17 pihole2 systemd[1034]: tracker-miner-fs.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Solution 1:
I'm in the same situation.
I think the main problem is that /home/pihole dir doesn't exists, and since pihole default shell is "nologin" you can't execute sudo for user and mask the services.
These are the steps I have followed to mask tracker services for pihole user
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Create pihole's home directore and give pihole a shell.
sudo mkdir /home/pihole sudo usermod -s /bin/bash pihole -
Go to pihole shell
sudo -i -u pihole -
Initialise XDG_RUNTIME_DIR variable in order to run systemctl (systemctl failed to connect to bus - docker ubuntu:16.04 container)
export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u)In my case user id is 999 (I think this is pihole default user id) -
Mask tracker services for pihole user.
systemctl --user mask tracker-store.service tracker-miner-fs.service tracker-miner-rss.service tracker-extract.service tracker-miner-apps.service tracker-writeback.service -
Restore nologin for pihole and delete pihole home dir (optional)
sudo usermod -s /usr/sbin/nologin pihole sudo rm -rf /home/pihole -
Reboot