samba - Oct 2018 - Samba 4.8.1: spotlight enabled share can not connect to Tracker

I’m having this exact same issue after upgrading from 4.7.x to 4.9.1. I’ve been
using the same set of instructions to setup tracker for a few years without
issue. Does anyone have any suggestions? I’m stuck on this and can’t figure out
what’s changed.

Thanks.

Mike Pestorich
> Date: Mon May 14 12:31:28 UTC 2018
> From: Dirk Köppen
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this is the error message I do receive:
> 
> Tracker-Message: 14:15:22.884: Could not get mtime for '
> file:///nonexistent/.cache/tracker/meta.db
> ': Error when getting information for file
“/nonexistent/.cache/tracker/meta.db”: No such file or directory
> (process:5229): Tracker-WARNING **: 14:15:22.884: Falling back to bus
backend, the direct backend failed to initialize: Could not open sqlite3
database:'/nonexistent/.cache/tracker/meta.db': unable to open database
file
> 
> I compiled samba 4.8.1 and current github master with --enable-spotlight,
installed Tracker according to the spotlight Wiki. I only needed to change the
Tracker Systemd Unit Files to match the correct path of the wrapper, e.g.
"Exec=/usr/libexec/tracker-wrapper tracker-extract".
> 
> Tracker is working as user mdssvc. I can search from command line.
> 
> So far I found that the above path "/nonexistent" is the home
directory of the user connecting to the samba share. I would expect
"/home/mdssvc" here.
> 
> My questions are:
> 	- Is the problem based on the fact that samba can not connect to Tracker
via dbus? (TRACKER_BUS_TYPE=system is set)
> 	- How can I set the users mdssvc home directory to be used for the
database access?
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help and best regards,
> Dirk
> 
> --
> Dirk Köppen <
> dirk at koeppen.name
> >
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On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 02:34:01PM -0700, Mike M Pestorich via samba
wrote:
>I’m having this exact same issue after upgrading from 4.7.x to 4.9.1. I’ve
been
>using the same set of instructions to setup tracker for a few years without 
>issue. Does anyone have any suggestions? I’m stuck on this and can’t figure
out
>what’s changed.
does setting

  TRACKER_SPARQL_BACKEND=bus

in the same location as setting the dbus type help?

-slow

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Yes. That did it. Thank you for the help.
> On Oct 8, 2018, at 11:00 PM, Ralph Böhme <slow at samba.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 02:34:01PM -0700, Mike M Pestorich via samba wrote:
>> I’m having this exact same issue after upgrading from 4.7.x to 4.9.1.
I’ve been using the same set of instructions to setup tracker for a few years
without issue. Does anyone have any suggestions? I’m stuck on this and can’t
figure out what’s changed.
> 
> does setting
> 
> TRACKER_SPARQL_BACKEND=bus
> 
> in the same location as setting the dbus type help?
> 
> -slow
> 
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