Bug#981089: tracker-miner-fs: Tracker miners are started for (some?) system users

Matijs van Zuijlen

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Jan 26, 2021, 2:50:03 AM1/26/21

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Package: tracker-miner-fs
Version: 2.3.5-2
Severity: normal

Dear maintainer,

I'm getting the following lines in my log:

tracker-miner-f[1783345]: Unable to get XDG user directory path for special directory &DOCUMENTS. Ignoring this location.
tracker-miner-f[1783345]: Unable to get XDG user directory path for special directory &MUSIC. Ignoring this location.
tracker-miner-f[1783345]: Unable to get XDG user directory path for special directory &PICTURES. Ignoring this location.
tracker-miner-f[1783345]: Unable to get XDG user directory path for special directory &VIDEOS. Ignoring this location.
tracker-miner-f[1783345]: Unable to get XDG user directory path for special directory &DOWNLOAD. Ignoring this location.

This seems to happen because the miner is started for some system user,
probably postgres. I don't think tracker miners should be started for
such users.

Kind regards,
Matijs

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IE:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages tracker-miner-fs depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.60
ii libc6 2.31-9
ii libglib2.0-0 2.66.4-1
ii libtracker-miner-2.0-0 2.3.6-2
ii libtracker-sparql-2.0-0 2.3.6-2
ii libupower-glib3 0.99.11-2
ii procps 2:3.3.16-5
ii tracker 2.3.6-2
ii tracker-extract 2.3.5-2

tracker-miner-fs recommends no packages.

tracker-miner-fs suggests no packages.

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Gürkan Myczko

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Sep 1, 2021, 3:40:04 AM9/1/21

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I've seen the same with lightdm. Prevent it from starting checking for
uid < 500 or 1000 (look it up please).

And also inside the service files (3 or older, both), there's a
reference to:
# Don't restart after tracker daemon -k (aka tracker-control -k)

there's no such tracker-control binary anywhere though.

It would even be great to document how to turn it off system wide maybe
inside README.Debian.

Thank you,

AlMa

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Jun 14, 2023, 11:10:04 AM6/14/23

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severity 981089 important
found 981089 3.4.3-1
thanks

Same messages for me here at Debian stable in yellow:

Jun 13 21:00:21 AnonymizedMachineName /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[1154]:
(II) modeset(0): Setting screen physical size to 677 x 381
Jun 13 21:00:21 AnonymizedMachineName systemd[1095]: Starting
tracker-miner-fs-3.service - Tracker file system data miner...
Jun 13 21:00:21 AnonymizedMachineName tracker-miner-f[1236]: Unable to

get XDG user directory path for special directory &DOCUMENTS. Ignoring
this location.