Re: Firefox indexer not working: files in ToIndex never removed

[Frederik Himpe <fhimpe telenet be>]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:22:31 -0400, Joe Shaw wrote:

>> The only error I could find in the logs is this backtrace:
>>
>> 20090420 22:18:48.7264 12883 Beagle ERROR EX: Caught exception while
>> instantiating IndexingService backend 20090420 22:18:48.7264 12883
>> Beagle ERROR EX: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception
>> has been thrown by the target of an invocation. --->
>> System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path
>> "/home/frederik/.beagle/Indexes/IndexingServiceIndex/Locks/lucene-87e2d2d7eab46d37e08cb23db1c76b0c-write.lock"
>> is denied.
> 
> This definitely looks like the problem.  Can you take a look at those
> files and directories and see if there are any ownership or modal
> problems that could prevent your user from being able to write or delete
> files from there?  Something owned as root, perhaps?

Ouch, I should have thought of this myself.

-r-------- 1 frederik frederik 6 2009-01-11 17:23 /home/frederik/.beagle/Indexes/IndexingServiceIndex/Locks/lucene-87e2d2d7eab46d37e08cb23db1c76b0c-write.lock

Making the file writeable again, fixed the problem. I have no idea
how these permissions got screwed up.

Thanks for your help!
-- 
Frederik Himpe