A better, faster desktop search for Linux!

[Amadeus W.M.]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:10:12 -0400, Neil Cherry wrote:

> Amadeus W.M. wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:57:46 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>> 
>>> I just saw this and this looks like fabulous project - better that
>>> beagle!
>>> http://digg.com/linux_unix/A_better_faster_desktop_search_for_Linux
>>>
>>> I love beagle, but not the memory footprint it uses and updates for
>>> mono used to break beagle, and vice-versa. I hope that "tracker" gets
>>> in Fedora 7 - and FAST.
>>>
>>>
>> 
>> Seems very nice indeed. For kicks, I created a file with some string in
>> it
>> 
>> echo "abcdefgh" > junk
>> 
>> then right away
>> 
>> tracker-search abcdefgh
>> 
>> found it instantly. I don't even know when or how it indexed it. After
>> the initial indexing, tracker it's unnoticeable. Beagle was reasonable
>> when I was working on the computer, but would take up 100% of the
>> processor after some 10-20 minutes of inactivity. So I uninstalled
>> beagle. Tracker doesn't seem to do that.
> 
> I don't have the same response on FC6. I did the exact same thing and
> tracker didn't find it. I tried searching for a string found in a file
> in my home directory and it didn't find it. I get all sorts of odd
> responses to tracker-search such as:
> 
> $ tracker-search abcdef
> tracker-search: internal tracker error: Did not receive a reply.
> Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply,
> the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout
> expired, or the network connection was broken.
> 
> This while tracker is streaming information on the tty I ran it on.
> 

You mean you did a search before tracker completed its initial indexing? 
Let it finish first, then do the search.