SUMMARY Dolphin's search results don't include external media anymore. After enabling baloo (see recent issue) it immediately returning search results for indexed files on the home partition but was searching long for files on external media. Since today it stopped showing search results for files on external media. Today I also tried to output the largest files accessible to root via `du` and `find` commands. Not sure if such could change the search functionality somehow. Now even KFind doesn't show these files anymore. Commands I ran included `sudo find / -name "*proc*" -prune -o -type f -exec du -a {} + | tail -n 200`. Now it immediately shows "No files found" instead of searching for long. Maybe it'll work again after a restart and maybe (probably if it doesn't fix itself somehow :/ ) I'll debug this further later. If you have any idea what the cause could be or how to find out please let me know. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Enable baloo search via baloo monitor and baloo check on Debian10/KDE 2. Have large external media and search on external media and try to find the largest files on the internal media with commands via the command line as root instead of via KFind as normal user 3. Try to search files in folders of the external media with Dolphin OBSERVED RESULT Immediately "No files found." is shown. EXPECTED RESULT It should search for a while and then show found files. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Debian 10 KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.54.0 Qt Version: 5.11.3 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Current version is 5.78, you are 24 versions or two years behind.
(In reply to Stefan Brüns from comment #1) > Current version is 5.78, you are 24 versions or two years behind. It's the latest version in latest Debian. How can I get a newer version in latest Debian 10 stable (which isn't a small distro btw)? It would be a problem even if it has been resolved by now and I'm not sure if it has been in the newer version. Lastly, should I turn baloo off or is there a way to get it working properly again?
Please ask in a Debian forum. If you are unable to get bugfixes, disabling baloo is a possible solution.
(In reply to Christoph Feck from comment #3) > Please ask in a Debian forum. If you are unable to get bugfixes, disabling > baloo is a possible solution. Ran `balooctl disable` and now the search works again with the external media. Will debug this further and probably ask about it on a modern website that has tags later. Would still find it good if there was some initiative from KDE community people to get newer versions into Debian - there could be an additional repository for newer KDE software so that would be something on the side of KDE, not Debian. It may be relevant that the external media is VeraCrypt encrypted.
> there could be an additional repository for newer KDE software There is, it is called KDE Neon, based on Ubuntu LTS. We cannot also maintain additional repositories for Debian. The fact that software versions in Debian are also much older would complicate the situation. If you have more ideas, please discuss them outside of this bug tracker.