Newbie startup problems -- w/o inotify, either no indexing or looping

[ht inf ed ac uk (Henry S. Thompson)]

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Background:
 1) I don't have root access to my machine, so I've installed the rpms
    by hand in a private directory tree and edited all the beagle-* scripts
    accordingly;
 2) Running Fedora Core 3, 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3, so no inotify yet;
 3) Home dir is on NFS, so I've used beagle-configure to remove it as
    a root -- only root is a partition on my local disk called /disk/b;
 4) extended attributes _are_ enabled for that partition:
     /dev/hdb1 on /disk/b type ext3 (rw,user_xattr)

Running daemon like this:

  usr/bin/beagled --deny-backend mail --deny-backend EvolutionDataServer --web-root /home/ht/.beagle/webroot/ --debug

I'm losing -- no indexing at all happens (I waited about 10 minutes,
machine was essentially idle).

Running daemon like this:

  BEAGLE_EXERCISE_THE_DOG=1 usr/bin/beagled --deny-backend mail --deny-backend EvolutionDataServer --web-root /home/ht/.beagle/webroot/ --debug

I'm still losing -- goes in to a loop filling the log file as follows:

05-10-02 19.13.00.15 24859 Beagle INFO: Starting Beagle Daemon (version 0.1.0)
05-10-02 19.13.00.18 24859 Beagle DEBUG: Command Line: /home/ht/lcontrib9/usr/lib/beagle/BeagleDaemon.exe --deny-backend mail --deny-backend EvolutionDataServer --web-root /home/ht/.beagle/webroot/ --debug --bg
05-10-02 19.13.00.18 24859 Beagle WARN: Extended attributes are not supported on this filesystem.  Many search backends will not be available
05-10-02 19.13.00.22 24859 Beagle DEBUG: Starting main loop
05-10-02 19.13.00.23 24859 Beagle DEBUG: Starting messaging server
05-10-02 19.13.00.30 24859 Beagle DEBUG: Loading Beagle.Util.Conf+IndexingConfig from indexing.xml
05-10-02 19.13.00.57 24859 Beagle DEBUG: Initializing index synchronization
05-10-02 19.13.00.58 24859 Beagle DEBUG: Synchronizing... (target=Local)
05-10-02 19.13.00.71 24859 Beagle DEBUG: Synchronized successfully in .13s
05-10-02 19.13.00.71 24859 Beagle DEBUG: Starting QueryDriver
05-10-02 19.13.00.79 24859 Beagle DEBUG: Found index helper at /home/ht/lcontrib9/usr/lib/beagle/beagled-index-helper
05-10-02 19.13.00.79 24859 Beagle WARN: Could not initialize inotify
05-10-02 19.13.00.79 24859 Beagle DEBUG: Starting FileSystemWatcher
Backend
05-10-02 19.13.00.99 24859 Beagle DEBUG: Found 10 types in BeagleDaemonLib, Version=1.4.3.3, Culture=neutral
05-10-02 19.13.01.00 24859 Beagle DEBUG: Found 0 user-configured static queryables
05-10-02 19.13.01.00 24859 Beagle DEBUG: Adding root: /disk/b
05-10-02 19.13.01.04 24859 Beagle DEBUG: Loaded 0 records from /tmp/beagle-ht-9376e484-144b-4730-bb87-73196e690e24/Indexes/FileSystemIndex/FileAttributesStore.db in 0.000s
05-10-02 19.13.01.05 24859 Beagle DEBUG: Done starting FileSystemQueryable
05-10-02 19.13.01.10 24859 Beagle DEBUG: Starting Scheduler thread
05-10-02 19.13.01.14 24859 Beagle INFO: This Computer Hostname: erasmus.inf.ed.ac.uk
05-10-02 19.13.01.14 24859 Beagle DEBUG: Starting WebBackEnd
05-10-02 19.13.01.23 24859 Beagle INFO: Starting WebServiceBackEnd
05-10-02 19.13.01.23 24859 Beagle DEBUG: Global WebServicesAccess Enabled
05-10-02 19.13.01.23 24859 Beagle DEBUG: Starting Internal Web Server BeagleXsp
Listening on port: 8888
Listening on address: 0.0.0.0
Root directory: /amd/nfs/pegasus/disk/ptn051/ht/.beagle/webroot
05-10-02 19.13.01.38 24859 Beagle DEBUG: Done crawling '/disk/b'
05-10-02 19.13.01.41 24859 Beagle DEBUG: Done crawling '/disk/b'
05-10-02 19.13.01.43 24859 Beagle DEBUG: Done crawling '/disk/b'
....

Any suggestions on how to improve my setup and start winning will be
gratefully received!

Thanks in advance for patience with newbie, I have searched archives
and website pretty thoroughly.  There is one bugzilla bug [1] which
seems like it might be related, but it seems to be stalled . . .

In case it's relevant, here's the info requested in that bug:

erasmus<508>: stat /disk/b
  File: `/disk/b'
  Size: 4096            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 341h/833d       Inode: 2           Links: 13
Access: (0711/drwx--x--x)  Uid: (27024/      ht)   Gid: (10000/people)
Access: 2005-10-02 18:26:28.000000000 +0100
Modify: 2005-09-08 09:44:47.000000000 +0100
Change: 2005-10-02 18:26:28.000000000 +0100
erasmus<509>: getfattr -d /disk/b
getfattr: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: disk/b
user.Beagle.AttrTime="20051002182628"
user.Beagle.Fingerprint="02 GWUP1JkSz0ajgnjLg0Zgkw"
user.Beagle.MTime="20051002182628"
user.Beagle.Uid="P2yYpmT_wUaVo25htye4Sw"

ht

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313104
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