From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 13 22:44:54 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABD9616A402 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:44:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mustikas008@yahoo.com) Received: from web37714.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web37714.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.87.112]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7831F13C484 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:44:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mustikas008@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 70128 invoked by uid 60001); 13 Mar 2007 22:44:54 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=AtwS5A/3pxKXNr47uARZIVGOny3+p7Z4lyAKXfYtbRALd0ayg0Q4oZ4B1nTJ8zWR+o3ZqTGZ6wxIKfcGis5iyPi8FbNxSQsQxF4ZFpSdpkxYgm2zXu5bo6mHcA/W53PVBuYxGbfGwVuB2bzgIHPNFAuCyfN+f4ugRGQbKQ+d5Lw=; X-YMail-OSG: wAkGQN0VM1nYIA1unkMN6tH.YMluujpUu2V52Oq.LvAWWaCmZsbKfKjTRbaOwbDOpKCXlttu__uS2f5GKbM1JrdWw4uLeKHdv67v_SRfyGxEnBThR2MOq7CpBe756zVbYmyA4rlV65ilj8YunnCP.6et2g-- Received: from [82.71.53.208] by web37714.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:44:53 PDT Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:44:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Must Karu To: Michael Johnson In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <919932.69643.qm@web37714.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tracker search not working? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:44:54 -0000 Thanks -- my main concern is to get tracker indexing the contents of my .txt and .pdf files (and the rest, but that's for later). tracker webpage says: tracker-extract FILE -- this extracts embedded metadata from FILE and prints to stdout on my system, tracker-extract FILE when invoked on a text or pdf file gives nothing in stdout. I conclude tracker does not extract anything. Question: does this little test succeed for you? If yes, then I conclude sth's quite wrong with my system. cheers, must -- --- Michael Johnson wrote: > On 3/13/07, Must Karu wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > can anyone confirm that ports/sysutils/tracker > search > > works properly on FreeBSD? I installed it from > ports, > > and although trackerd now runs, with the > tracker.log > > file containing all these zillion directories it > > claims to be watching, the thing does not seem to > be > > working. For: when I invoke tracker-extract on a > .txt > > file that contains some text, it outputs nothing. > (It > > is supposed to output the search results to stdout > as > > one can read on the tracker webpage.) Likewise, > > tracker-seach-tool gives `no results' for any > possible > > search string; and I've tried files that are > obviously > > listed even in the tracker .log file. > tracker-stats > > gives nothing. The search GUI freezes for about > half > > a minute when I enter a search string. So, all in > all > > the trackerd search seems to do nothing. I wonder > > where might the fault lie? I could do more tests > to > > help locate the cause of this behaviour but don't > know > > what I could or should do really. Can anyone > point me > > to how I should proceed? Does anybody have a > working > > tracker on their system? > > > it works for me, plus if the directory you are > tracking is rather > large it can take hours and hours to complete a > database. > > with that said, there are quite a few bugs and I > have had to > "rm -rf ~/.Tracker" more than once since I started > using it. > > Michael > > > thanks, must > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 > hotels > > in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find > your fit. > > http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#news