GNOME with Tracker 3 -- call for testing

Applications
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VM images are now available!

You can download the latest disk.img.xz file here, or from gnome-build-meta!753.

Please report any issues you find (apart from Photos, which we know is still WIP). Some tips for testing:

  • start applications from the Terminal rather than the shell, so you can see errors and warnings
  • use journalctl --user-unit tracker-miner-fs-3.service --user-unit tracker-extract-3.service to see logs for the Tracker daemons

Here are the issues I’ve spotted so far.

FIXED: tracker-miner-fs-3 critical on startup

Already reported as tracker-miner-fs-3 critical on startup (#115) · Issues · GNOME / LocalSearch · GitLab. Fixed in Some fixes for indexing of volumes (!248) · Merge requests · GNOME / LocalSearch · GitLab

FIXED: Nautilus crashed during search

How to reproduce:

  1. create a text document in ~/Documents
  2. search for a random string in Nautilus

Warnings or crashes start to occur, e.g.:

(org.gnome.Nautilus:3336): Tracker-CRITICAL **: 18:56:54.307: tracker_sparql_connection_query_async: assertion 'TRACKER_IS_SPARQL_CONNECTION (connection)' failed

Fixed in Port to Tracker 3 (!553) · Merge requests · GNOME / Files · GitLab

FIXED: Document doesn’t appear in GTK+ file chooser

How to reproduce:

  1. create a text document named ~/Documents/banana.txt
  2. start GEdit and click ‘open’
  3. type ‘banana’ in the search bar – file doesn’t appear

Note that GTK must be configured with -Dtracker3=true.