Re: nepomuk/strigi - searching on tags returns nothing

[Valerio Passini <valerio.passini@unicam.it>]

Alle mercoledì 25 febbraio 2009, Bernard Gray ha scritto:
> Hi All,
> I'm using current kde 4.2.0 packages from experimental - but I've not
> yet worked out how to get the desktop search working on tags.
>
> I have "Nepomuk Semantic Desktop" enabled in systemsettings, however I
> can't enable the strigi desktop file indexer (I presume) because of
> the "Strigi service not running" message underneath the checkbox.
>
> I've tried starting the service manually with the `strigidaemon`
> command, and I've done a manual index using the `strigiclient` tool.
> The systemsettings dialog still claims the service isn't running
> though, and searches on tags I know exist (and nepomuk knows exist
> because I get a prompt for them in krunner) still return nothing.
>
> Does anyone have this working? Can you point me in the right direction
> for a resolution?
>
> Thanks,
> Bernie

It's a well known problem and there is already a bugreport that you can read here:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=502851

Hope this helps you to understand why strigi can't work at least for now.

Valerio