Bug 285999

Summary:	"Nepomuk Indexing Agents Have Been Disabled" error at startup
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] Akonadi	Reporter:	Leonardo La Malfa <leonardo.la.malfa>
Component:	Nepomuk Feeder Agents	Assignee:	Tobias Koenig <tokoe>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	fintanusa, illumilore, kdepim-bugs, lazki, mfraz74+kde, roejames12, vkrause
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Leonardo La Malfa 2011-11-07 13:59:20 UTC

Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.7.2)
OS: Linux

Hi all. After booting my computer I get the following notification:

"Nepomuk Indexing Agents Have Been Disabled
The Nepomuk service is not available or fully operational and attempts to rectify this have failed. Therefore indexing of all data stored in the Akonadi PIM service has been disabled, which will severely limit the …

The following problems were detected: Calling the Nepomuk storage service failed: 'The name org.kde.NepomukStorage was not provided by any .service files'.

Additional help can be found here: userbase.kde.org/Akonadi"

There's no real additional help at the link provided. It's really annoying, for I always get three or more of the same notifications at once. It makes me feel like something is wrong with my system, but it's a fresh installation of Oneiric 11.10, and I haven't tinkered with Nepomuk or anything at all, for that matter.

Actually, this problem seems related to the following bug report: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258171. As far as I understand it, though, people in the bug report are complaining because they actually have turned Nepomuk off, so they don't want to be bothered with notifications about what they already know. In fact, more than a proper bug, it's reported as a whishlist, and currently marked as invalid.

But I haven't turned anything off, I just want things to work properly because I haven't tinkered with their settings. The above-mentioned bug report is about people who have disabled Nepomuk. I didn't do it, and want it fully operational. I still would like to solve this issue. There has got to be something I can do, hopefully.

I would appreciate any help to solve this issue. Many thanks in advance.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:
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Comment 1 Christophe Marin 2011-11-08 19:40:09 UTC

> But I haven't turned anything off

If you didn't, then your distribution did for you (which is obviously a bad idea as you could see)

systemsettings / "Desktop Search" is what you're looking for.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 283212 ***

Comment 2 Leonardo La Malfa 2011-11-08 20:25:22 UTC

> If you didn't, then your distribution did for you (which is obviously a bad
> idea as you could see)

> systemsettings / "Desktop Search" is what you're looking for.

It's obvious and good common sense that I checked that before reporting my bug, and Nepomuk is evidently running -  which I do want it to be. I think this bug should be reopened as it's not obviously a duplicate of Bug 283212. Many thanks.

Comment 3 Christophe Marin 2011-11-08 21:21:21 UTC

Fine, then please paste the output of:

qdbus org.kde.NepomukServer /nepomukserver isNepomukEnabled

qdbus org.kde.NepomukServer /nepomukserver isFileIndexerEnabled

Comment 4 Leonardo La Malfa 2011-11-08 21:29:45 UTC

Sure thing, here it goes:
lelamal@EGO:~$ qdbus org.kde.NepomukServer /nepomukserver isNepomukEnabled
true
lelamal@EGO:~$ qdbus org.kde.NepomukServer /nepomukserver isFileIndexerEnabled
Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod
No such method 'isFileIndexerEnabled' in any interface at object path '/nepomukserver' (signature '')

Comment 5 James Roe 2011-11-13 17:45:36 UTC

I'm getting this weird problem as well. It usually starts at startup. I disabled nepomuk because of it, but still get it the messages, even with it off.

Back to nepomuk being on, I deleted all akonadi and nepomuk settings and user files, but the error comes back eventually regardless. Sometimes it's 3 notification popups, but not necessarily.

$ qdbus org.kde.NepomukServer /nepomukserver isNepomukEnabled
true
$ qdbus org.kde.NepomukServer /nepomukserver isFileIndexerEnabled
Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod
No such method 'isFileIndexerEnabled' in any interface at object path '/nepomukserver' (signature '')

The notification errors I am getting are:

3 notifications of these. Doesn't matter whether nepomuk is disabled or not.
'''
Nepomuk Indexing Agents Have Been Disabled
The Nepomuk service is not available or fully operational and attempts to rectify this have failed. Therefore indexing of all data stored in the Akonadi PIM service has been disabled, which will severely limit the …

The following problems were detected:
Nepomuk is not running.
Additional help can be found here: userbase.kde.org/Akonadi
'''

Comment 6 Fred 2011-11-19 07:42:12 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> I'm getting this weird problem as well. It usually starts at startup. I
> disabled nepomuk because of it, but still get it the messages, even with it
> off.
> 
> Back to nepomuk being on, I deleted all akonadi and nepomuk settings and user
> files, but the error comes back eventually regardless. Sometimes it's 3
> notification popups, but not necessarily.
> 
> $ qdbus org.kde.NepomukServer /nepomukserver isNepomukEnabled
> true
> $ qdbus org.kde.NepomukServer /nepomukserver isFileIndexerEnabled
> Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod
> No such method 'isFileIndexerEnabled' in any interface at object path
> '/nepomukserver' (signature '')
> 
> The notification errors I am getting are:
> 
> 3 notifications of these. Doesn't matter whether nepomuk is disabled or not.
> '''
> Nepomuk Indexing Agents Have Been Disabled
> The Nepomuk service is not available or fully operational and attempts to
> rectify this have failed. Therefore indexing of all data stored in the Akonadi
> PIM service has been disabled, which will severely limit the …
> 
> The following problems were detected:
> Nepomuk is not running.
> Additional help can be found here: userbase.kde.org/Akonadi
> '''

I am having the exaclty same issue:

fintan@fintanws3:~$ qdbus org.kde.NepomukServer /nepomukserver isNepomukEnabled
true
fintan@fintanws3:~$ qdbus org.kde.NepomukServer /nepomukserver isFileIndexerEnabled
Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod
No such method 'isFileIndexerEnabled' in any interface at object path '/nepomukserver' (signature '')
fintan@fintanws3:~$

Comment 7 lazki 2011-11-20 15:55:45 UTC

I am having the same issue after upgrading to Kubuntu 11.10.

The same notifications and behavior.

Fixed it just by deleting the folder 

~/.kde/share/apps/nepomuk

and closing my session.

Hope that helps.

Comment 8 Christoph Feck 2011-12-05 10:11:41 UTC

*** Bug 288246 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Ekkehard Blanz 2011-12-26 21:12:45 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 10 Christophe Marin 2012-01-07 20:29:15 UTC

Note: the "3 notifications of these." warnings were removed in 4.8 (there's only one feeder instead of 3 anyway)

Comment 11 Volker Krause 2012-03-11 17:42:27 UTC

This error message (and more importantly, the code path triggering it) doesn't exist anymore in KDE PIM 4.8.