Re: restarting the daemon from the search when it dies

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Hi,

Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> When beagle-search (the graphical UI) starts and does it's first search,
> it checks if the daemon is running and asks one if one wants to start it
> if it's not.
>
> That same check should be done always.  For example, if I have to kill
> the daemon because it's eating all of my VM (like I had to do this
> morning to release nearly a GB of VM) and then try to search,
> unsurprisingly, the search produces no results.  No "could not be found"
> kind of error either.  The search window just sits there like it's
> searching.  Of course, the daemon is not even running.
>
> Would be good for the search tool to notice this and prompt the user if
> he wants it started.

Good point.  Can you file a bug about this?

Thanks,
Joe