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. -- Random complete lockups related to bad page states https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160753 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
