My xsession-errors file is filling up with a constant stream of messages like this: Cannot index Thunderbird contacts because a Beagle.Util.InvalidMorkDatabaseException was thrown: This file is missing a valid mork header Could not read Pidgin buddy list file: Document element did not appear. file:///home/peter/.purple/blist.xml Line 1, position 1. And yet I have neither Thunderbird nor Pidgin installed. Nor the Debian equivalent, icedove. How to stop this stuff? In desperation I tried installing them and then doing completely remove. Is this something to do with Mozilla, that Firefox aka Iceweasel demands that you have this other stuff installed and configured with addresses? Why? Is the solution maybe to just get rid of Firefox and go to Konqueror - which I have done for one other person, on account of the impossibility of printing properly? Or any other suggestions? Al
2009/6/28 Peter Alcibiades <palcibiades-first@yahoo.co.uk>:
My xsession-errors file is filling up with a constant stream of messages like this:
Cannot index Thunderbird contacts because a Beagle.Util.InvalidMorkDatabaseException was thrown: This file is missing a valid mork header Could not read Pidgin buddy list file: Document element did not appear. file:///home/peter/.purple/blist.xml Line 1, position 1.
And yet I have neither Thunderbird nor Pidgin installed. Nor the Debian equivalent, icedove.
I'd guess the problem is with Beagle thinking you should have Pidgin installed. If you don't use Beagle I'd uninstall that too. Tim.
I'd guess the problem is with Beagle thinking you should have Pidgin installed. If you don't use Beagle I'd uninstall that too.
Yes I would agree. Beagle and Tracker are both still problematic and only useful for the subset of users who cannot properly organise their data IMO I have had trouble with both in the past to the extent I wish all distros would default to not installing/enabling this indexing and/or pop up a prompt on first run saying "Are you the sort of person that loses stuff y/n" Both have randomly brought my system to it's knees even when they are supposed to be low priority and only index when the system is idle and both have managed to corrupt their own databases and then generate continual popups saying the database is broken, whilst offering no option or suggestion to correct this. To be fair the situation on Windows is no better :)
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Beagle and Tracker are both still problematic and only useful for the subset of users who cannot properly organise their data IMO
I have had trouble with both in the past to the extent I wish all distros would default to not installing/enabling this indexing and/or pop up a prompt on first run saying "Are you the sort of person that loses stuff y/n"
Both have randomly brought my system to it's knees even when they are supposed to be low priority and only index when the system is idle and both have managed to corrupt their own databases and then generate continual popups saying the database is broken, whilst offering no option or suggestion to correct this.
Never come across Beagle or Tracker - are they automagically conjured when you do a full installation of Debian? Oh, and apologies if I'm sending replies to sender rather than to list: Thunderguts doesn't seem to play nicely with lists. -- Tony
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 18:35 +0100, Anthony Anson wrote:
Never come across Beagle or Tracker - are they automagically conjured when you do a full installation of Debian?
I suspect Debian "does the right thing" (tm) and doesn't put them in by default. Ubuntu and others do though.
That's good. Tried to make an Ubantu live CD from a coverdisc and it didn't work, so, while I have an alleged Ubantu CD, actually working, I've only a live Knoppix CD (which seems to behave), this Early-Learning version of Xandros on the Eee, and a full installation of Debian on the Big Box. Strangely, the Big Box has suddenly taken a dislike to anything NT-based, and won't work with W 2000 or XP, but tolerates DOS and Win 98 of booth flavours. It makes no complaint about any Linux distro... -- Tony
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