Bug 398867

Summary: Dolphin search doesn't work in $HOME when you select "From here"
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-baloo Reporter: Patrick Holthaus <patrick.holthaus>
Component: generalAssignee: baloo-bugs-null
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: kitts.mailinglists, nate, tagwerk19, yari.dev.it
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.50.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Attachments: Screenshot of search bar

Description Patrick Holthaus 2018-09-20 10:52:05 UTC
If you select "From here" while in the user's home directory, search doesn't work: Even files that are obviously there and are visible in the directory before opening the search don't appear. This happens whether you search for filenames or content (I didn't check further options).

Some more observations:

 * After a while, dolphin notifies the user that baloosearch died: "The process for the baloosearch protocol died unexpectedly."
 * balooctl status reports: "Baloo File Indexer is running.", Index looks healthy as well.
 * dolphin's terminal output contains: "Empty filename passed to function" on searching.
 * dolphin's terminal output sometimes contains: "org.kde.dolphin: slotUrlSelectionRequested:  QUrl("file:///{{homedir}}/{{selected folder}}")" after selecting different folders (at somerandom point later?)
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-09-20 19:25:32 UTC
But searching explicitly in the home directory rather than "from here" does work?
Comment 2 Patrick Holthaus 2018-09-21 12:15:46 UTC
Created attachment 115140 [details]
Screenshot of search bar
Comment 3 Patrick Holthaus 2018-09-21 12:16:28 UTC
I thought that selecting "From here (pholthaus)" is actually the explicit variant that searches in the current folder. The only other option is "Everywhere".
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2018-09-21 14:31:18 UTC
My apologies, I confused myself for a moment there! I meant, does it work when you click "Everywhere"?
Comment 5 Patrick Holthaus 2018-09-21 15:43:32 UTC
Sorry, that has gone missing due to editing the original post. Yes, it works perfectly when you select "Everywhere".
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2018-09-21 15:45:02 UTC
Awesome, thanks for the info. BTW, we have a patch that should fix the issue: https://phabricator.kde.org/D15635
Comment 7 yari.dev.it 2018-09-21 16:31:58 UTC
I think it isn't a Dolphin bug but a Baloo bug.
If you try to force baloo to search an item (/home/user/foo) in a specific folder from terminal (baloosearch -d /home/user foo), it doesn't find anything, but, if you tell it to search that in the parent folder (baloosearch -d /home foo), it will find it.
I don't know how to resolve this bug because I never worked on this project, but there's nothing wrong with Dolphin.
Comment 8 Nate Graham 2018-09-21 16:35:06 UTC
You are correct, and the patch is for Baloo. :)
Comment 9 yari.dev.it 2018-09-21 17:07:39 UTC
Excuse me, my internet connection is horrible and I saw the comment too late. Anyway, I compiled the patched code, but the error persists.
Comment 10 Nate Graham 2018-09-21 17:09:53 UTC
Yari, it sounds like you have a different problem, then. I can confirm Patrick's issue but not yours. Would you file a new bug for it? Thanks!
Comment 11 yari.dev.it 2018-09-21 18:08:27 UTC
Ok, there isn't any bug, my system's baloo simply didn't index my home directory before a certain date. So, I forced it to index again and it works. I don't know if Patrick's issue is the same that I had, but also unpatched dolphin now works well. Excuse me again but theese are my first approaches to KDE bugs community.
Comment 12 Nate Graham 2018-09-21 18:50:58 UTC
Not a problem, we've all been there. :)
Comment 13 Patrick Holthaus 2018-09-24 08:51:22 UTC
Thank you Nate. Great to hear there is a patch already!

Just because it may become useful:
I tried to reproduce the bug on another system but was not successful. I don't know what could be the reason for that because both systems are more or less up-to-date although their update cycle is vastly different meaning that the other system did not get a lot of updates in between.
Comment 14 Jaime Torres 2018-09-25 17:21:00 UTC
Git commit 95af521127c117c1aebf3a3881a86dc7422a2a11 by Jaime Torres Amate.
Committed on 25/09/2018 at 17:20.
Pushed by jtamate into branch 'master'.

Use String to store UDS_USER and UDS_GROUP of String type.

Summary:
First crash I get after enabling Dr. Konqi for slaves.
UDS_USER and UDS_GROUP are strings, not numbers, therefore I've got an assert (simplified):
"udsField & KIO::UDSEntry::UDS_NUMBER", "udsentry.cpp", line=line@entry=113)

Use the same methods to get those data as in file.

Test Plan: Search an obvious file in $HOME, it is shown.

Reviewers: dfaure, #baloo, #frameworks, ngraham

Reviewed By: dfaure, #baloo, ngraham

Subscribers: ngraham, broulik, kde-frameworks-devel

Tags: #frameworks, #baloo

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D15635

M  +41   -2    src/kioslaves/search/kio_search.cpp
M  +6    -0    src/kioslaves/search/kio_search.h

https://commits.kde.org/baloo/95af521127c117c1aebf3a3881a86dc7422a2a11
Comment 15 Kishore 2021-09-22 07:16:52 UTC
I'm on lastest update of user neon and find the issue still present. If i perform a dolphin search with the "From Here" selected, it fails to find any file and always shows no results. If I change the search option to "Your files", it finds the file.

I find the same problem to be true from within baloosearch. When I use the -d option to baloosearch, it fails to find the same file that it found without the option.

kishore@kishore-x403:~$ baloosearch AN4065
/home/kishore/Projects/Reference/Datasheets/ST/STM32F0 Reference Manual.pdf
Elapsed: 2.35966 msecs
kishore@kishore-x403:~$ baloosearch -d /home/kishore/Projects/Reference/Datasheets/ST AN4065
Elapsed: 0.329187 msecs
kishore@kishore-x403:~$ baloosearch --version
Baloo 5.86.0
kishore@kishore-x403:~$
Comment 16 tagwerk19 2021-09-23 21:08:06 UTC
(In reply to Kishore from comment #15)
> I find the same problem to be true from within baloosearch. When I use the
> -d option to baloosearch, it fails to find the same file that it found
> without the option.
I wonder what we are doing differently, I've found what may be the same PDF:
    https://www.waveshare.com/w/upload/d/d9/STM32F0-Reference.pdf
Downloaded to:
    /home/test/Projects/Reference/Datasheets/ST/STM32F0 Reference Manual.pdf

a straightforward folder tree, no symlinks. Both the tests work:

    $ baloosearch AN4065
    /home/test/Projects/Reference/Datasheets/ST/STM32F0 Reference Manual.pdf
    Elapsed: 0,229862 msecs

    $ baloosearch -d /home/test/Projects/Reference/Datasheets/ST/ AN4065
    /home/test/Projects/Reference/Datasheets/ST/STM32F0 Reference Manual.pdf
    Elapsed: 0,24483 msecs

System is a Guest VM:

    KDE neon 5.22
    Ext4 filesystem

    Plasma: 5.22.5
    Frameworks: 5.86.0
    Qt: 5.15.3
    Kernel: 5.11.0-36-generic (64-bit)