Re: [Tracker] Problems running tracker

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Jose A. Ortega Ruiz wrote:
> 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...

CVS version is unstable - only use the tarball for the moment. I need to 
make changes to make clients work in CVS as I have *DRAMATICALLY* 
altered the Dbus interfaces recently.

> ...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

This is a Dbus problem and is not related to the CVS version.

> 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.

This is a dbus problem and AFAIK you need to make sure the dbus session 
is started on login (check /etc/X11/Xsession.d contains a dbus-launch 
script ).

You should also have dbus-launch running as a task for the user if it is.

If you still have problems try running dbus-monitor and dbus-viewer and 
see if you get any output. I assume you dont have any other dbus based 
apps working?


> 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 :)

okay cool


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