STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. disable baloo: $balooctl disable 2. purge current database: $balooctl purge 3. re-enable baloo: $balooctl enable 4. run "balooctl monitor". output says "Waiting for file indexer to start" 5. run "balooctl status". output says "Baloo Index could not be opened". Therefore, baloo is indexing nothing. 6. restart Plasma session and run "balooctl status": now you can see the files being currently indexed by baloo. EXPECTED RESULT after database to be purged and baloo reenabled, baloo should re-index the files without to require relogin. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.69.0 Qt Version: 5.14.2
Try running "balooctl enable" twice - see Bug 419708
(In reply to tagwerk19 from comment #1) > Try running "balooctl enable" twice - see Bug 419708 it works, thanks. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 419708 ***