Re: [Tracker] Tracker 0.0.4 apparently doing nothing after a while.

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

ks3597 wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I was impressed by the descriptions of tracker (compared to beagle which 
> I have some reservations about) and decided to try it out on an Ubuntu 
> Dapper PC.  I installed tracker 0.0.4 on Ubuntu Dapper (with all updates 
> installed) using the following:
>
>    sudo apt-get install libextractor1c2a
>    cd /var/cache/apt/archives
>    sudo wget -nd 
> http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/DEB/tracker_0.0.4_i386.deb
>    sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/tracker_0.0.4_i386.deb
>
> But when I typed:  "trackerd" it starts up the indexing process and just 
> sits there at "Extracting Metadata for file /home/.../Examples with mime 
> unknown" for a very long time >15 minutes) so I aborted it.

The log shows it cannot connect to dbus session bus - enusre this is 
started beforehand (it should be in .xsession so its auto started on x 
login)

please make sure dbus is fully operational on your system otherwise 
tracker will foul up. (use dbus-monitor to make sure tracker can 
communicate wiht it)


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Mr Jamie McCracken
http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/