Beagle stopped working after update

rikona rikona at sonic.net
Tue Feb 15 07:53:26 UTC 2011


Hello Ioannis,

Monday, February 14, 2011, 8:40:07 PM, Ioannis wrote:

IV> On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 20:03 -0800, rikona wrote: 
>> Now running 10.04.2. Did a recent update, and that seems to have
>> caused a couple of problems.
>> 
>> (1) Beagle stopped working after the update. The Beagle GUI works, but
>> produces no hits for a word that should return at least several hits.
>> Same for beagle-query CLI - no hits, and no errors. Running all the
>> Beagle tools produces reasonable results. Looking in .beagle shows a
>> reasonable index - right size, date, etc. - has about 12,000 docs.
>> Everything seems to be "working" - BUT it produces no hits.
>> 
>> Anybody else have this problem? [Especially after a recent update.]
>> 
>> How can I tell what Beagle dependencies might have been updated in the
>> last update? This might give a clue of the cause, and perhaps a fix?
>> 
>> Note - update also included changing the kernel to use 4 Gigs of
>> memory recently installed. Now sees all 4 Gigs.
>>   
>> [[and (problem 2) - sometimes needs a reboot to get the network
>> working - also happened after the update. This was mentioned in a
>> previous email, and is not part of this thread.]]
>> 
>> Good searching is very important to me - any help much appreciated...


IV> According to my opinion, ==> which may be wrong <==, do not use
IV> anything that has to do with Mono, C#, or any other MS technology.
IV> They tend to be a mess.

Is that what Beagle uses? Why is that a mess? If that is what Beagle
uses, it has worked quite well **until the update**. What did the
update do?

IV> If the default "Search For Files" engine in GNOME does not meet your
IV> requirements, you may try installing GNOME Meta Tracker:

IV> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracker_%28desktop_search_software%29

IV> http://projects.gnome.org/tracker

Sounded interesting. Installed it, but it also gives NO results for
words I KNOW are in text files. Same problem as Beagle.

IV> in Ubuntu Software Center/Synaptic.

That's how I installed tracker.

IV> Other Desktop Search Engines mentioned in Wikipedia are:

IV> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrier_Search_Engine

IV> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Desktop

No way I'm going to trust Google rummaging around in EVERY file on my
comp. :-)

IV> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigi

Haven't used those but have used others. DTsearch [on Win] is my
current favorite, Beagle is/was second, recoll is third.

Thanks for the reply and suggestion. I wish it worked... :-)

-- 

 rikona        





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