{"id":27,"date":"2009-05-04T01:03:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T00:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2009-05-04T06:59:51","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T05:59:51","slug":"updating-from-hardy-heron-to-jaunty-jackalope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Updating from Hardy Heron to Jaunty Jackalope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got around to updating Ubuntu this evening.\u00c2\u00a0 Had to go from Hardy to Intrepid first (purely as a waypoint), then to Jaunty Jackalope.<\/p>\n<p>No major problems, although HAL quit for me at some point and had to be restarted remotely (stopped recognizing my mouse and keyboard when I kvm&#8217;d back from another machine).<\/p>\n<p>After booting into Jaunty, I started getting the error &#8220;Tracker Applet: There was an error while performing indexing: Index corrupted.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 This appears to be a pretty common error.\u00c2\u00a0 For instance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the<a title=\"Tracker Applet Problem\" href=\"http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?t=1126130\"> Ubuntu Forums<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Another<a title=\"Tracker Applet Problem\" href=\"http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?t=1134654\" target=\"_blank\"> thread in the Ubuntu Forums<\/a><\/li>\n<li>or a <a title=\"Tracker Applet Problem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxforums.org\/forum\/ubuntu-help\/145512-tracker-applet-error-9-04-a.html\" target=\"_blank\">thread in the Linux Forums<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You probably want to read those to draw your own conclusions, but what worked for me was to install the tracker-utils package, and then wipe out trackers.<\/p>\n<pre># Install the tracker utilities\r\nsudo apt-get install tracker-utils\r\n# Kill all the processes and wipe out the database\r\nsudo tracker-processes -r\r\n# Remove the cache\r\nrm -rf ~\/.cache\/tracker\r\n# Clear local settings\r\nrm -rf ~\/.local\/share\/tracker\r\n# Remake the directory\r\nmkdir ~\/.local\/share\/tracker\r\n# Restart the daemon\r\nsudo \/usr\/lib\/tracker\/trackerd &amp;<\/pre>\n<p>Now &#8230; I suspect that&#8217;s not permanent, but we&#8217;ll see what happens after the next reboot.<\/p>\n<p><em>Followup:\u00c2\u00a0 That worked fine.\u00c2\u00a0 After logging out and logging back in, the tracker applet restarted, indexing restarted, and finished pretty quickly.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got around to updating Ubuntu this evening.\u00c2\u00a0 Had to go from Hardy to Intrepid first (purely as a waypoint), then to Jaunty Jackalope. No major problems, although HAL quit for me at some point and had to be restarted remotely (stopped recognizing my mouse and keyboard when I kvm&#8217;d back from another machine). After &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/?p=27\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Updating from Hardy Heron to Jaunty Jackalope&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}