#1148085 localsearch: gracefully handle crashes (don't retry)

Package:
localsearch
Source:
localsearch
Description:
metadata database, indexer and search tool - metadata extractors
Submitter:
Marc Glisse
Date:
2026-09-16 21:07:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1148085#5
Date:
2026-09-16 21:04:21 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

there is one file on my computer that crashes localsearch-ext. That's
ok, it is unavoidable, especially with plugins to handle many file
types. The problem is that when there is such a crash, instead of
marking the file as problematic somehow, localsearch keeps retrying,
every second, all day long, without any limit. The output of journalctl
is flooded with

sept. 16 21:32:02 abc localsearch-3[5221]: Extractor subprocess died unexpectedly: Child process killed by signal 11
sept. 16 21:32:03 abc systemd-coredump[732120]: [🡕] Process 732112 (localsearch-ext) of user 59682 terminated abnormally without generating a coredump.
â–‘â–‘ Subject: Process 732112 (localsearch-ext) dumped core
â–‘â–‘ Defined-By: systemd
â–‘â–‘ Support: https://www.debian.org/support
â–‘â–‘ Documentation: man:core(5)
â–‘â–‘
â–‘â–‘ Process 732112 (localsearch-ext) crashed and dumped core.
â–‘â–‘
â–‘â–‘ This usually indicates a programming error in the crashing program and
â–‘â–‘ should be reported to its vendor as a bug.
sept. 16 21:32:03 abc localsearch-3[5221]: Extractor subprocess died unexpectedly: Child process killed by signal 11
sept. 16 21:32:03 abc systemd[4462]: drkonqi-coredump-launcher.socket: Too many incoming connections (16), dropping connection.
sept. 16 21:32:04 abc systemd-coredump[732137]: [🡕] Process 732130 (localsearch-ext) of user 59682 terminated abnormally without generating a coredump.

Or in dmesg (which seems to have a clever limiter on repetitive messages)
[52293.643987] traps: localsearch-ext[751238] general protection fault ip:7fd241187419 sp:7ffc702b4208 error:0 in libc.so.6[16a419,7fd241045000+168000]


I am going to disable localsearch, but I hope someone can configure it
to be less eager...

(the problematic file seems to be icu_conversion_data.c.gz.abw from
tensorflow 2.21, but that's not what this report is about)