Comment 8 for bug 160753

I upgraded the affected machine to Hardy Heron alpha 5 and re-enabled tracker (I completely removed tracker from the gutsy system and didn't encounter the problem anymore)

I used the system with the 2.4.24 kernel. Unfortunately, the problem persists and kicks in a few moments after trackerd starts indexing: a complete lockup of the system. However, this time without any clues. There are no messages anymore in /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog regarding the crash.

I played around a bit more and found that tracker was set up to index a directory onto which a vfat partition is mounted (/media/shared) After removing this directory from the list of directories to watch, indexing seems to complete without any system crashes.

Following up on this, I tried some extensive file copying from the vfat partition to my home directory. This also resulted in a system crash! So it seems that somehow reading from this partition causes the system to crash...

Let me know if there is any more information you need.