Bug#718446: tracker-extract possibly prevents shutdown to complete

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2024-01-29 15:03:44 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 at 15:22:31 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > However, in my case,
> > tracker-extract (gst-plugin-scan) was yielding a crash in nouveau
> > 
> > 2023-12-19T03:10:02.176832+01:00 qaa tracker-extract-3[1967]: nvc0_screen_create:1077 - Error allocating PGRAPH context for M2MF: -16
> > 2023-12-19T03:10:02.177550+01:00 qaa kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > 2023-12-19T03:10:02.177568+01:00 qaa kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timeout
> > [...]
> > 2023-12-19T03:10:02.177710+01:00 qaa kernel: CPU: 3 PID: 1967 Comm: gst-plugin-scan Tainted: G        W          6.5.0-5-amd64 #1  Debian 6.5.13-1
> 
> That's certainly a kernel/driver bug. In principle it should not be
> possible for Tracker to cause a crash in kernel code (was this an OOPS
> or a BUG message or what?), even if it wanted to do this intentionally.

No OOPS / BUG messages, just "nouveau 0000:01:00.0: timeout". Xorg
also triggered this error. This was due to missing symbolic links
in the firmware-misc-nonfree package:

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1058991

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