tracker search hangs and never returns results

I also found a similar bug report here:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tracker/issues/161

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

This bug was fixed in the package tracker - 2.3.6-2

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tracker (2.3.6-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * debian/rules:
    - build without Bsymbolic and strip Bsymbolic-function, fixes the
      tracker search hanging on Ubuntu (lp: #1861358)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 17 Sep 2020 16:18:10 +0200

As this is a regression in 20.04, I'm asking if there is a backport planned ?

Hello Christoph, or anyone else affected,

Accepted tracker into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/2.3.6-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted tracker (2.3.6-0ubuntu1) for focal have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

tracker/2.3.6-0ubuntu1 (armhf)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/focal/update_excuses.html#tracker

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

This is to confirm that the package in 'proposed' works. I installed tracker 2.3.6-0-ubuntu1 from 'focal-proposed' and when running 'tracker search something' I get actual search results (and no more Glib warnings).

I have teste the package from focal proposed.

I confirm that searches work with the updated package. However, tracker-miner-fs and tracker-extract get removed when installing because of the update to libtracker-control and libtracker-sparql. This should be fixed before backporting.

I have to correct myself. Using selective upgrades the correct upgrade command is

$ sudo apt upgrade libtracker-miner-2.0-0/focal-proposed libtracker-control-2.0-0/focal-proposed libtracker-sparql-2.0-0/focal-proposed tracker/focal-proposed

in this case tracker installs correctly and seems to work.

Cheers,
Christoph

This bug was fixed in the package tracker - 2.3.6-0ubuntu1

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tracker (2.3.6-0ubuntu1) focal; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version (lp: #1896073)
  * debian/rules:
    - build without Bsymbolic and strip Bsymbolic-function, fixes the
      tracker search hanging (lp: #1861358)
  * tracker.install: Drop XDG autostart file for tracker-store. Dropped
    upstream, tracker uses DBus activation. Include new manpage

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 17 Sep 2020 17:03:10 +0200

The verification of the Stable Release Update for tracker has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.