Files backend problem

[Aviram Jenik <aviram beyondsecurity com>]

Hi,

I've been having problems with the Files backend from the pre-0.1 CVS that 
still happen with 0.1. 

The description of the problem is identical to the one described earlier - 
best "freezes" during rendering if any files appear in the search results, 
and indexing stops (even indexing of other backends). Also, beagle-shutdown 
leaves zombies that are only killed by kill -9.

Here is the last snippet of the IndexHelper log. After that no indexing is 
done and best freezes. If I kill beagle and restart it while disabling the 
files backend, everything works ok:


05-09-20 00.11.56.37 03405 IndexH ERROR: Exception occurred duing 
DoPullProperties.
05-09-20 00.11.56.38 03405 IndexH ERROR: System.NullReferenceException: Object 
reference not set to an instance of an object
in <0x00000> <unknown method>
in (wrapper managed-to-native) GLib.Value:g_value_get_string (GLib.Value&)
in <0x0000e> GLib.Value:op_Explicit (Value val)
in <0x00163> Beagle.Filters.FilterPPT:ExtractMetaData (Gsf.Input sumStream, 
Gsf.Input docSumStream)
in <0x0011f> Beagle.Filters.FilterPPT:DoPullProperties ()
05-09-20 00.11.56.74 03405 IndexH DEBUG: Helper Size: VmRSS=44.7 MB, 
size=5.02, 100.4%
05-09-20 00.11.56.74 03405 IndexH DEBUG: Process too big, shutting down!
05-09-20 00.11.56.74 03405 IndexH DEBUG: CancelIfBlocking 
Beagle.Daemon.ConnectionHandler
05-09-20 00.11.56.74 03405 IndexH DEBUG: (1) Waiting for 2 workers...
05-09-20 00.11.56.74 03405 IndexH DEBUG: waiting for server 
'/home/aviram/.beagle/socket-helper'
05-09-20 00.11.56.74 03405 IndexH DEBUG: waiting for HandleConnection (8)
05-09-20 00.11.56.81 03405 IndexH DEBUG: 
+file:///home/aviram/Documents/some-very-large-and-complicated-powerpoint-file.ppt
05-09-20 00.11.57.01 03405 IndexH DEBUG: Server 
'/home/aviram/.beagle/socket-helper' shut down
05-09-20 00.11.57.02 03405 IndexH DEBUG: (2) Waiting for 1 worker...
05-09-20 00.11.57.02 03405 IndexH DEBUG: waiting for HandleConnection (8)


This has made the files backend practically unusable for me. I tried deleting 
the indexes and re-indexing, but that doesn't help. Note that early CVS 
versions (right after 0.0.12) worked fine on the same file system.

- Aviram