Re: Does the SEARCH function work OK in FC6?

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M Daniel R Magarzo wrote:
> El sáb, 11-11-2006 a las 12:15 -0600, Steven Stern escribió:
>> M Daniel R Magarzo wrote:
>>> I don't know why, but it seems to me it's not working normally.
>>> Whichever I put as string to find, it tells me always the same, nothing
>>> found. Actually, it never finds anything!
>>> The same happens when launching Beagle directly. :-( 
>>>
>>> Has someone experienced something similar (FC6)?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>>
>> beagled is running on my system, but
>>
>>    beagle-info --status
>>
>> just hangs most of the time and my home directory and the other
>> directories I've listed in the indexing preferences don't seem to have
>> been indexed.
>>
>> If I manually kill the autostarted beagled and run it from the command
>> line, then beagle-info will show that indexing is scheduled to take
>> place in the near future, but it never seems to happen and subsequent
>> beagle-info checks also hang.
>>
>> -- 
>>
>>   Steve
>>
> 
> Thanks
> 
> It seems that the behaviour of beagle-info that you described before is
> also reproducing here.. though I don't know beagle very much. In fact, I
> hardly-ever use it, unlike the Search function embebed in Nautilus.
> Actually, I don't know whether this one has any interconection with the
> first (Beagle), or maybe each one is totally independent from each
> other. 
>  
> Nevertheless, I frequently resort to the Nautilus Search, and specially
> during/after a system update-install, because of the numerous amount of
> short-text-notes that are being continuously accumulated from release to
> release; As everybody can suppose, they are specially helpful when
> moments like this arrive. 
> 
> I don't know if the next have anything to do with all this, but I did a
> fresh install of FC6 over 3 partitions where previously lived FC5, /boot
> and / were formatted again BUT with /home I decided (for the first time
> as opposed to older FC/RedHat installs) to asign the newer /home there
> without formatting. Everything went O.K. 
> (BTW, it's absolutely recommendable, you save loooots of efforts & time)
> It seems like that the Nautilus Search function hasn't indexed the files
> placed into that partition...
> 
> Please Steve, is your Nautilus Search working right? Did you preserve
> your older /home in order to build your fc6?
> 
> I don't know if this is simply odd (configuring or something I can being
> missing..) or is just, purely Murphy.. that appears (as usual) choosing
> the "best moment" :-))
> 

I started with an upgrade to FC6, but after screwing around for two days
trying to get a couple of small things working, I backed up ~/ and did a
clean install. After restoring my home directory, I deleted ~/.beagle so
 that would be clean (in case there were version differences).

The search in Nautilus doesn't seem to do or find anything.


-- 

  Steve


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