On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 at 19:33, Tim Evans <tkevans@tkevans.com> wrote:
On 1/6/25 1:00 PM, Will McDonald wrote:
>
> [wmcdonald@fedora ~ ]$ rpm -qi `rpm -qf /usr/libexec/tracker-miner-fs-3`
> Name        : tracker-miners
> Version     : 3.7.4
> Release     : 2.fc41
> Architecture: x86_64
> Install Date: Thu 02 Jan 2025 14:35:31 GMT
> Group       : Unspecified
> Size        : 4559227
> License     : GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later
> Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Thu 12 Dec 2024 19:10:53 GMT, Key ID
> d0622462e99d6ad1
> Source RPM  : tracker-miners-3.7.4-2.fc41.src.rpm
> Build Date  : Thu 12 Dec 2024 15:47:19 GMT
> Build Host  : buildvm-x86-14.iad2.fedoraproject.org <http://buildvm-
> x86-14.iad2.fedoraproject.org>
> Packager    : Fedora Project
> Vendor      : Fedora Project
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Yeah, clearly installed via dnf in some routine update, in my case in
mid-December.  I see it on two other local systems here, but it's not
running continuously on them, just on the one system.  Must be a config
somewhere, but the man page doesn't mention any configuration files,
just some startup and debug options.  Wonder if it's crawling across NFS
mounts to my NAS?

Some of the first few links from the DDG search might be worth reviewing:

This is for Ubuntu and the
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72827703/how-to-disable-file-indexing-in-ubuntu-22-04-tracker3

[wmcdonald@fedora ~ ]$ rpm -qc tracker-miners
/etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-fs-3.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-rss-3.desktop
 
[wmcdonald@fedora ~ ]$ cat /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-fs-3.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Tracker File System Miner
Comment=Crawls and processes files on the file system
Exec=/usr/libexec/tracker-miner-fs-3
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Utility;
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
X-GNOME-HiddenUnderSystemd=true
X-KDE-autostart-after=panel
X-KDE-StartupNotify=false
X-KDE-UniqueApplet=true
NoDisplay=true
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;KDE;XFCE;X-IVI;Unity;
X-systemd-skip=true

It seems odd that just disabling/masking the systemd services isn't sufficient but maybe flipping X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true to false might also help.

These might also be of interest:

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/how-to-disable-tracker-miner/66220/10
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/tracker3-tracker-miner-fs-3-constantly-running/79598
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/694065/how-to-really-completely-disable-gnome-tracker