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Re: [PLUG] "Medusa" failing on startup
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On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:02:06AM -0400, Barry Spindler wrote:
> Looks like there's (at least) 2 Medusas..
> The one that's depended on by Nautilus tho is:
>
> medusa - The GNOME search/indexing package
>
> Tho I really couldn't tell ya why it's not working...
>
> --Barry
I was wondering about that as I was crawling in bad last night, why on
earth would nautilus require such a change (as I had found and
reported) in the kernel space? The name matched, it had a daemon,
looked like a match....there is a third, a plugin for XMMS
...but back to the original problem.
I found some scant information in Nautilus's bug tracking site,
bugzilla.eazel.com, about medusa and how it is used. medusa builds an
index of all the files on your system so that you don't need to search
your entire system everytime that when you click Find. Originally,
the indexer was only run via a cron, then it was pointed out that the
index was not available between startup and the first time the cron
job was run, so they added the init script.
More simply, originally there was only /etc/cron.daily/medusa.cron,
which would run once a day. A bug was filed
(http://bugzilla.eazel.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4710) pointing out that
this could leave a user without medusa's capabilities for up to 24
hours after rebooting. The solution was to add /etc/init.d/medusa,
which is what is failing.
Questions
1) Which version of medusa are you using? What is its build date? (I
think rpm -qi medusa will provide both of these answers.)
2) What do you get if you try to run that init script manually?
(Run "/etc/init.d/medusa start" as root) Does it work once you have
the rest of gnome running?
Other things to look into:
man medusa-config
man msearch
man medusa.conf
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