[Bug 1990630] [NEW] [SRU] tracker-extract-3 crashed with signal 31 in __GI_epoll_create1()

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[Impact]

Bug is impacting jammy desktop instances that uses tracker-miners
package by default. It keeps restarting the service and this makes the
CPU busy.

[Where problems could occur]

epoll_create1() is the preferred call over epoll_create(), and is used
in GLib 2.74 and later due to glib!2868 (merged) so the error described
below occurs pretty commonly

[Test Case]

* Enable proposed updates (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed)
* Update tracker-extract to the version in -proposed: sudo apt install -t jammy-proposed tracker-extract
* Check journalctl logs to see if `Disallowed syscall "epoll_create1" caught in sandbox` message disappeared and the service is not restarting due to this error.

[Regression Potential]

The patch doesn't modifies an existing behavior it only allows an
additional syscall, so it shouldn't introduce regression


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Impact
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As seen by the number of duplicates, this is the most common tracker crash seen in Ubuntu 22.10.

According to seeded-in-ubuntu, tracker-miners is included by default
only in the Ubuntu Desktop flavor

error after upgrade from 22.04 to 22.10

https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/4f257ae91411857c6bb9266de343d7f189a68474

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.10
Package: tracker-extract 3.4.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.19.0-15.15-generic 5.19.0
Uname: Linux 5.19.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.23.0-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
Date: Fri Sep 23 09:31:40 2022
ExecutablePath: /usr/libexec/tracker-extract-3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-05-11 (134 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20220223)
ProcCmdline: /usr/libexec/tracker-extract-3
Signal: 31
SourcePackage: tracker-miners
StacktraceTop:
 __GI_epoll_create1 () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:120
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: tracker-extract-3 crashed with signal 31 in __GI_epoll_create1()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to kinetic on 2022-09-23 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo
separator:

** Affects: tracker
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: tracker-miners (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: tracker-miners (Ubuntu Jammy)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Talha Can Havadar (tchavadar)
         Status: In Progress


** Tags: amd64 apport-crash bugpattern-needed jammy kinetic rls-jj-incoming wayland-session
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[SRU] tracker-extract-3 crashed with signal 31 in __GI_epoll_create1()
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1990630
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