FS#50444 - [tracker] gnome-shell freezes when Tracker uses VA-API to analyze video files
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Arch Linux
Opened by Florent Thiery (fthiery) - Friday, 19 August 2016, 10:54 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 07 November 2019, 12:31 GMT
Opened by Florent Thiery (fthiery) - Friday, 19 August 2016, 10:54 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 07 November 2019, 12:31 GMT
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Description: i noticed that recently my laptop was slower to
startup, and gnome-shell was even freezing every second or
so, making it unusable. By looking at journalctl, i noticed
a lot of repeated libva debug info, which are related to
tracker using gstreamer to analyze/decode videos, itself
using vaapi.
I know this bug should also be reported upstream, but i think that arch should ideally be configured not to use vaapi for Tracker. Additional info: * cpu: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3230M CPU @ 2.60GHz * packages local/libva 1.7.1-1 local/libva-intel-driver 1.7.1-1 local/tracker 1.8.0-3 (gnome) local/gstreamer 1.8.2-1 local/gstreamer-vaapi 1.8.2-1 Steps to reproduce: # be sure to have some mp4 videos somewhere # remove all indexes in tracker-preferences # wait a few seconds, gnome-shell should freeze heavily Enabling debugging: # tracker daemon --set-log-verbosity debug # journalctl -f Logs août 19 12:25:32 mypc org.freedesktop.Tracker1.Miner.Extract[656]: libva info: VA-API version 0.39.2 août 19 12:25:32 mypc org.freedesktop.Tracker1.Miner.Extract[656]: libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0 août 19 12:25:32 mypc org.freedesktop.Tracker1.Miner.Extract[656]: libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/i965_drv_video.so août 19 12:25:32 mypc org.freedesktop.Tracker1.Miner.Extract[656]: libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_39 août 19 12:25:32 mypc org.freedesktop.Tracker1.Miner.Extract[656]: libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0 août 19 12:35:55 mypc org.freedesktop.Tracker1.Miner.Extract[636]: Tracker-Message: Extracting metadata for 'file:///home/user/Videos/test.MP4' août 19 12:35:55 mypc org.freedesktop.Tracker1.Miner.Extract[636]: (tracker-extract:2202): Tracker-DEBUG: Using /usr/lib/tracker-1.0/extract-modules/libextract-gstreamer.so... août 19 12:35:55 mypc org.freedesktop.Tracker1.Miner.Extract[636]: (tracker-extract:2202): Tracker-DEBUG: GStreamer backend in use: août 19 12:35:55 mypc org.freedesktop.Tracker1.Miner.Extract[636]: (tracker-extract:2202): Tracker-DEBUG: Discoverer/GUPnP-DLNA |
This task depends upon
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770137
It was fixed upstream (see link above).