Package: baloo6 Version: 6.18.0-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
I recently tried to get KDE/Plasma File Search working. Through the KDE/Plasma UI, I enabled "File indexing" and set "Data to index: File names and contents" - and nothing happened. The KDE interface status line reported "Not Running, 0% complete", but gave no explanation as to why the indexer wasn't running despite "File indexing" being enabled. It took some web searching to learn that the KDE component that handles indexing is something called baloo, and that the service's status can be checked with "balooctl[6] status", and the service enabled and started with "balooctl[6] enable / start". Since the KDE interface makes no mention of baloo and the need to ensure that it's running, how is a normal user of the system supposed to know this? (The KDE Help does mention that File Search "internally uses a technology called Baloo to efficiently search through the files," but it makes no mention of the fact that the service may be disabled by one's distribution, or how to check its status and enable / start it.) -- System Information: Debian Release: forky/sid APT prefers oldstable-security APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.16.12+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages baloo6 depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.69 ii kio6 6.18.0-1 ii libc6 2.41-12 ii libkf6baloo6 6.18.0-1 ii libkf6balooengine6 6.18.0-1 ii libkf6configcore6 6.18.0-1 ii libkf6coreaddons6 6.18.0-2 ii libkf6crash6 6.18.0-1 ii libkf6dbusaddons6 6.18.0-1 ii libkf6filemetadata3 6.18.0-1 ii libkf6i18n6 6.18.0-1 ii libkf6idletime6 6.18.0-1 ii libkf6kiocore6 6.18.0-1 ii libkf6solid6 6.18.0-1 ii libqt6core6t64 6.9.2+dfsg-3 ii libqt6dbus6 6.9.2+dfsg-3 ii libqt6gui6 6.9.2+dfsg-3 ii libstdc++6 15.2.0-8 baloo6 recommends no packages. baloo6 suggests no packages. -- debconf-show failed
