Re: [Tracker] noob installing 0.7.17

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 28/01/10 18:29, Jorge wrote:
> Here a noob myself, here's my experience:
>
> On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 15:39 +0000, BjÃrn Johansson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I downloaded and successfully compiled the latest tracker 0.7.17.
> > I set some options using the system>preferences>search and indexing
> > (ubuntu 9.10).
> > however, tracker didnt start and calling trackerd and the cli I got
> > the message that there was no such command.
>
> You terminate tracker with
> $ tracker-control -t
>
> Start it with
> $ tracker-control -s
>
> After restaring it, you must start the icon with
> $ tracker-status-icon&
>
> To watch the progress (same info you get clicking on the icon)
> $ tracker-status
>
>
> > after restarting the computer I get the animated magnifying glass
> > icon.
> > leftclick on the icon gets me applications 100% and file system 0%.
> > The files in /home/bjorn/.cache/tracker are not changing size, so I
> > think tracker is not working, despite the animated icon?
>
> Throthling might be at work here... Leave the pc alone for half a minute
> and see if it pickups.

Yes, what does tracker-status -fd say it is doing?

In addition, if you run with verbosity set to 3, can you see if tail -f 
~/.local/share/tracker/tracker-miner-fs.log shows anything happening?

We have fixed some issues in miner-fs recently that may affect this and 
also I know there is a bug with named pipes causing disruption which 
still needs to be addressed.

> > Could someone tell me how to proceed? The instructions on the
> > metatracker website seem outdated?
> > I do not have any of the ubuntu tracker packages installed:
>
> None of the 0.6.x package are neccesary (i would avoid them)

Yes, wise advise.

For advise, please use:

  http://live.gnome.org/Tracker/Documentation/

In particular:

  http://live.gnome.org/Tracker/Documentation/Building

and

  http://live.gnome.org/Tracker/Documentation/Debugging

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Regards,
Martyn