Ubuntu – tracker-miner-fs crashes on Ubuntu 20.04

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I upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 today, and after this upgrade tracker-miner-fs seems to crash and restart contiguously; pegging my CPU at 100% until I manually kill the process.

The error I'm getting in /var/log/syslog is:

Apr 28 22:23:01 evertbook5 tracker-miner-f[31182]: Could not find parent node for URI:'file:///home/evert/Music/unsorted/iTunes%20Music/Giorgio%20Moroder/E=MC2'
Apr 28 22:23:01 evertbook5 tracker-miner-f[31182]: NOTE: URI theme may be outside scheme expected, for example, expecting 'file://' when given 'http://' prefix.
Apr 28 22:23:01 evertbook5 tracker-miner-f[31182]: tracker_file_system_set_property: assertion 'file != NULL' failed
Apr 28 22:23:01 evertbook5 tracker-miner-f[31182]: tracker_file_system_set_property: assertion 'file != NULL' failed
Apr 28 22:23:01 evertbook5 tracker-miner-f[31182]: Could not find parent node for URI:'file:///home/evert/Music/unsorted/iTunes%20Music/Giorgio%20Moroder/E=MC2/08%20Evolution.mp3'
Apr 28 22:23:01 evertbook5 tracker-miner-f[31182]: NOTE: URI theme may be outside scheme expected, for example, expecting 'file://' when given 'http://' prefix.
Apr 28 22:23:01 evertbook5 tracker-miner-f[31182]: tracker_file_system_set_property: assertion 'file != NULL' failed
Apr 28 22:23:01 evertbook5 tracker-miner-f[31182]: tracker_file_system_set_property: assertion 'file != NULL' failed
Apr 28 22:23:02 evertbook5 tracker-miner-fs[31182]: **
Apr 28 22:23:02 evertbook5 tracker-miner-fs[31182]: Tracker:ERROR:../src/libtracker-miner/tracker-file-system.c:259:file_tree_lookup: assertion failed: (ptr[0] == '/')
Apr 28 22:23:02 evertbook5 tracker-miner-fs[31182]: Bail out! Tracker:ERROR:../src/libtracker-miner/tracker-file-system.c:259:file_tree_lookup: assertion failed: (ptr[0] == '/')
Apr 28 22:23:02 evertbook5 systemd[2738]: tracker-miner-fs.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT
Apr 28 22:23:02 evertbook5 systemd[2738]: tracker-miner-fs.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
Apr 28 22:23:02 evertbook5 systemd[2738]: tracker-miner-fs.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 45.

There's isntructions to permanently stop this process, but I would rather to see it work.

Best Answer

Removing the tracker database seems to have done the trick:

rm -r ~/.cache/tracker