I dual boot Windows and Fedora with a shared NTFS partition. My home folders are symbolic links to matching folders on the shared partition, so I can visit them conveniently by clicking the sidebar folders in the Files app. What I don’t get with this setup is working search from Activities Overview (pressing Super and typing to search).
Despite adding the shared partition as a custom search location in Settings, results from it do not show in the overview. If I navigate to the partition in the Files app and search there, it works fine.
Searching for answers led me to look at tracker3. I found various warning and critical messages in the logs so I tried resetting it with tracker3 reset -s
then tracker3 daemon -s
, but that had no effect.
Environment is Fedora 40, GNOME 46, Wayland, Linux 6.11.3-200.fc40.x86_64
partition details
/etc/fstab
UUID=0C5F6EEC5B15C3A9 /mnt/shared ntfs defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=022,fmask=133,x-gvfs-show 0 0
mount | grep shared
/dev/nvme0n1p6 on /mnt/shared type fuseblk (rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096,x-gvfs-show)
tracker3 log messages
Critical
tracker-miner-fs-3[84897]: (tracker-extract-3:84897): Poppler-CRITICAL **: char* poppler_page_get_text(PopplerPage*): assertion 'POPPLER_IS_PAGE(page)' failed
tracker-miner-fs-3[84897]: (tracker-extract-3:84897): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
tracker-miner-fs-3[84897]: (tracker-extract-3:84897): GStreamer-Base-CRITICAL **: gst_adapter_flush: assertion 'flush <= adapter->size' failed
Warnings
tracker-miner-fs-3[84897]: (tracker-extract-3:84897): Tracker-WARNING **: Task for 'file:///mnt/shared/...' finished with error: Could not get any metadata for uri:'file:///mnt/shared/...' and mime:'application/msword'
tracker-miner-fs-3[84897]: (tracker-extract-3:84897): Tracker-WARNING **: Task for 'file:///mnt/shared/...' finished with error: Could not open:Broken zip file structure
tracker-miner-fs-3[84897]: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
tracker-miner-fs-3[84897]: libpng warning: iCCP: cHRM chunk does not match sRGB
tracker-miner-fs-3[84897]: libpng warning: IDAT: Too much image data
tracker-miner-fs-3[84897]: libpng error: Not a PNG file
tracker-miner-fs-3[84897]: Duplicate property or field node
tracker-miner-fs-3[84897]: libpng warning: iCCP: cHRM chunk does not match sRGB
tracker-miner-fs-3[84897]: (tracker-extract-3:84897): Tracker-WARNING **: Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///mnt/shared/...) failed: The stream is in the wrong format.