[Tracker] Problems running tracker

["Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <jao gnu org>]

Hello,

i was trying to make tracker work in my Debian unstable PPC. Since
there are no PPC debs available (to my knowledge), i've checked out
the CVS source tree and debuild-ed my own deb. Compilation goes OK, as
well as installing the deb. I can run tracker, which indexes the given
directory, and notices any changes in the indexed files. So far so
good. My problem is with the clients, tracker-{query,search}. Upon
invoking them (with trackerd running), they die immediately with the
message:

Could not initialise Tracker - exiting...

...and i'm stuck here. The only strange thing i've seen is that, when
starting trackerd, it complains about not being able to connect to the
system dbus bus:

tracker_dbus_init() could not get the session bus

I've tried to restart the dbus daemon to no avail. FWIW, i get exactly
the same behaviour using the 0.0.4 tarball. BTW, i'm not using gnome
or any other 'desktop', just plain sawfish (in case that matters).

I'd appreciate any hints on what i'm missing.

As an aside, once i got tracker working, i will write an emacs client
(something along the lines of namazu.el to begin with), unless someone
has already done it for me :)

Thanks for your time,
jao
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