Beagle stopped working after update

[NoOp]

On 02/14/2011 08:03 PM, 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.

Beagle is pretty much dead:
http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page
<quote>
 Beagle Status

Beagle is no longer in active development. It is getting some occasional
maintenance done by Novell.
</quote>

I recommend trying recoll instead:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/recoll
http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/
as you will see, recoll is activly worked on:
<quote>
News:

    * 2011-02-13 : Recoll 1.15.2 is out. This brings important GUI
improvements, with a new switchable table-based result list, and direct
access to sort functions. See the Release notes.
</quote>

Only one reported open bug on launchpad:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/recoll
and that is pretty recent + provides a workaround (I suspect the real
issue is xapian misbehaving as usual).

recoll-backports has builds for 1.15 if you'd like to experiment:
https://launchpad.net/~recoll-backports
  https://launchpad.net/~recoll-backports/+archive/recoll-1.15-on