On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:10:12 -0400, Neil Cherry wrote: > Amadeus W.M. wrote: >> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:57:46 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote: >> >>> I just saw this and this looks like fabulous project - better that >>> beagle! >>> http://digg.com/linux_unix/A_better_faster_desktop_search_for_Linux >>> >>> I love beagle, but not the memory footprint it uses and updates for >>> mono used to break beagle, and vice-versa. I hope that "tracker" gets >>> in Fedora 7 - and FAST. >>> >>> >> >> Seems very nice indeed. For kicks, I created a file with some string in >> it >> >> echo "abcdefgh" > junk >> >> then right away >> >> tracker-search abcdefgh >> >> found it instantly. I don't even know when or how it indexed it. After >> the initial indexing, tracker it's unnoticeable. Beagle was reasonable >> when I was working on the computer, but would take up 100% of the >> processor after some 10-20 minutes of inactivity. So I uninstalled >> beagle. Tracker doesn't seem to do that. > > I don't have the same response on FC6. I did the exact same thing and > tracker didn't find it. I tried searching for a string found in a file > in my home directory and it didn't find it. I get all sorts of odd > responses to tracker-search such as: > > $ tracker-search abcdef > tracker-search: internal tracker error: Did not receive a reply. > Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, > the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout > expired, or the network connection was broken. > > This while tracker is streaming information on the tty I ran it on. > You mean you did a search before tracker completed its initial indexing? Let it finish first, then do the search.
