I'm a bit of a newb when it comes to Linux so bear with me.
I installed Ubuntu 21.10 Desktop from a Live USB over the weekend to a NAS device. Performance was abysmal but I kept at it and eventually screwed something up, unable to boot after a day. So I reinstalled (without formatting from scratch -- I had already moved 3TB of data back onto the drives and didn't want to do it again) and everything is working as expected, performance is better...but when I check logs via Cockpit, I'm seeing a couple of consistent errors showing up, several times per minute:
- "Failed to start Tracker file system data miner." *(happens consistently 6 times per minute)*
- "Failed to start Tracker metadata extractor." *(consistently 4 times per minute)*
According to logs, these errors began approximately 20 minutes after the OS was installed and fully booted.
Now, obviously this seems related to Tracker3. But I'm not sure it's caused by it, because I followed steps from this blog to disable tracker3 completely, rebooted, and the errors persist.
What else I've tried:
- Attempted to reset tracker database via tracker reset -r -s
- I read that tracker can be thrown off by broken files, so I cleaned out, to the best of my ability, the Photos/Movies/Documents/Downloads/etc. folders. They were mostly empty anyway.
- Went to Settings > Search > disabled Search
If I query tracker for its status, this is what it reports:
Currently indexed: 129 files, 15 folders
Remaining space on database partition: 2.8 TB (94.28%)
All data miners are idle, indexing complete
Here is the output from Cockpit when I click on the "Failed to start Tracker file system data miner" error:
systemd
Failed to start Tracker file system data miner.
CODE_FILE src/core/job.c
CODE_FUNC job_log_done_status_message
CODE_LINE 938
JOB_ID 55426
JOB_RESULT failed
JOB_TYPE start
MESSAGE_ID be02cf6855d2428ba40df7e9d022f03d
PRIORITY 3
SYSLOG_FACILITY 3
SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER systemd
TID 1708
USER_INVOCATION_ID 058f1e0ef4644facb9fe004971d0990a
USER_UNIT tracker-miner-fs-3.service
_AUDIT_LOGINUID 998
_AUDIT_SESSION 5
_BOOT_ID a9c239348bf4402da3c932c95d34900c
_CAP_EFFECTIVE 0
_CMDLINE /lib/systemd/systemd --user
_COMM systemd
_EXE /usr/lib/systemd/systemd
_GID 998
_HOSTNAME NetworkStorage
_MACHINE_ID f6292d361b38446b809654d2a4f3ff0d
_PID 1708
_SELINUX_CONTEXT unconfined
_SOURCE_REALTIME_TIMESTAMP 1646323317230382
_SYSTEMD_CGROUP /user.slice/user-998.slice/[email protected]/init.scope
_SYSTEMD_OWNER_UID 998
_SYSTEMD_SLICE user-998.slice
_SYSTEMD_UNIT [email protected]
_SYSTEMD_USER_SLICE -.slice
_SYSTEMD_USER_UNIT init.scope
_TRANSPORT journal
_UID 998
__CURSOR s=1225d662430a48c482616e099954af45;i=4b439;b=a9c239348bf4402da3c932c95d34900c; m=84cf21c53;t=5d95284827354;x=e8dce6118371f266
__MONOTONIC_TIMESTAMP 35650673747
__REALTIME_TIMESTAMP 1646323317240660
And here's the output for the "Failed to start Tracker metadata extractor." error:
systemd
Failed to start Tracker metadata extractor.
CODE_FILE src/core/job.c
CODE_FUNC job_log_done_status_message
CODE_LINE 938
JOB_ID 61088
JOB_RESULT failed
JOB_TYPE start
MESSAGE_ID be02cf6855d2428ba40df7e9d022f03d
PRIORITY 3
SYSLOG_FACILITY 3
SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER systemd
TID 1708
USER_INVOCATION_ID 4a4a35f756d841659a948cb6e08ea36d
USER_UNIT tracker-extract-3.service
_AUDIT_LOGINUID 998
_AUDIT_SESSION 5
_BOOT_ID a9c239348bf4402da3c932c95d34900c
_CAP_EFFECTIVE 0
_CMDLINE /lib/systemd/systemd --user
_COMM systemd
_EXE /usr/lib/systemd/systemd
_GID 998
_HOSTNAME NetworkStorage
_MACHINE_ID f6292d361b38446b809654d2a4f3ff0d
_PID 1708
_SELINUX_CONTEXT unconfined
_SOURCE_REALTIME_TIMESTAMP 1646326944495198
_SYSTEMD_CGROUP /user.slice/user-998.slice/[email protected]/init.scope
_SYSTEMD_OWNER_UID 998
_SYSTEMD_SLICE user-998.slice
_SYSTEMD_UNIT [email protected]
_SYSTEMD_USER_SLICE -.slice
_SYSTEMD_USER_UNIT init.scope
_TRANSPORT journal
_UID 998
__CURSOR s=1225d662430a48c482616e099954af45;i=4c1ae;b=a9c239348bf4402da3c932c95d34900c; m=92525d7ee;t=5d9535cb62eee;x=364e9a55bd789d06
__MONOTONIC_TIMESTAMP 39277942766
__REALTIME_TIMESTAMP 1646326944509678
For what it's worth, my install is stock except for the following software (and dependencies):
- Plex Media Server
- Plex Media Player
- Pi-Hole
- Steam
- Steam Link
- xone (xbox gamepad driver)
- Cockpit
Not sure where to attempt to troubleshoot next, so would love some suggestions.
