Bug 353075

Summary:	baloo_file_extractor does nothing
Product:	[Unmaintained] Baloo	Reporter:	luisfe <luisfe>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Vishesh Handa <me>
Status:	CLOSED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian unstable
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description luisfe 2015-09-23 08:25:52 UTC

I use baloo 5.14 compiled for debian sid.

Since I was not able to search by content in the command line I tried baloo_file_extractor, but the program just freezes and does nothing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. luisfe@mychabol:~$ baloo_file_extractor some_file.txt
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Actual Results:  
The program just sits there, no cpu use, no IO, no error, never finish

The machine is idle, no other program is doing anything heavy.

Expected Results:  
To finish and extract the information from the file.

Comment 1 Vishesh Handa 2015-09-23 12:33:47 UTC

baloo_file_extractor is an implementation detail and is not meant to be called by the user. If you want to manually index a file for debugging I suggest using balooctl.

$ balooctl index <filePath>

Also, I'm worried that Baloo is not functioning for your. Perhaps we should diagnose that as well? What does `balooctl status` say?

Comment 2 luisfe 2015-09-23 15:17:57 UTC

Ok

I have realised that without recommends debian installs several filemetadata libs, but not a package called libkf5filemetadata-bin. After installing this package and forcing reindexing (balooctl disable/enable) no I can search by content.

Sorry for the noise and thanks for your help. Closing the bug.