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* The index is huuuuge ! How can I make it smaller ?
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The format of Xapian indexes is optimized for writing. Once all documents
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have been indexed, compacting the index may reduce its size quite
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significantly. If you have Xapian >= 1.0.6, xapian-compact will let you do
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that. Stop the daemon and run the following commands :
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$ mv ~/.pinot/daemon ~/.pinot/backup-daemon
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$ xapian-compact ~/.pinot/backup-daemon ~/.pinot/daemon
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This may take a little while. Once xapian-compact has completed, restart
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the daemon with :
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$ pinot-dbus-daemon -i
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The -i parameter instructs the daemon to ignore the index version number,
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which may not have been set in the compacted index.
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You may also want to disable support for spelling. See the README for more
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details.
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* Pinot doesn't use my favourite browser XYZ to open HTML documents
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Even if you have set XYZ as your favourite Web browser in your desktop
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environment, it may not be setup as the default application for HTML files.
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In Gnome for instance, one has to select XYZ as default for all HTML files
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using Nautilus (Properties dialog, Open With tab). This applies to
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applications for any other file type.
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* At startup, when listing an index or indexing documents, Pinot complains
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of an "index error"
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This is likely because a previous instance didn't exit properly and one
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(or more) index is still locked. Quit Pinot and look for a "db_lock",
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"flicklock" or "flintlock" file (depending on what version of Xapian the
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index was created with/is currently installed) in the directory that Pinot
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complains about. If it's there, check that no other process is using this
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file, delete it and restart Pinot.
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* When compiling from source, you may run into linking problems related to
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libstdc++.la. Try patching xapian-config as explained in the post at
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http://lists.tartarus.org/pipermail/xapian-devel/2006-January/000293.html
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* If you experience segfaults at startup and you are on Fedora, chances are
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it's because of libxml++/libsigc++. See this Bugzilla entry :
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178592
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The latest version seems to fix this issue.
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* If the daemon crashes seemingly randomly while indexing, it may be because
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SQLite wasn't built thread-safe. I have witnessed this mostly on dual CPU
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machines, but others are not immune. Try rebuilding SQLite by passing
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"--enable-threadsafe --enable-threads-override-locks" to configure.
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* If you have built Pinot from source, make sure you have done a "make install".
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Pinot will fail to start if it can't find stuff it needs, its icon for
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instance.
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* If "make install" fails with an error about Categories in pinot.desktop
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and you have desktop-file-utils 0.11, either downgrade to 0.10 or upgrade
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to 0.12 if possible, or edit the top-level Makefile and replace the line
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@desktop-file-install --vendor="" --dir=$(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/applications pinot.desktop
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with
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$(INSTALL_DATA) pinot.desktop $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/applications/pinot.desktop
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and run "make install" again.
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* In stored queries, the directory filter doesn't work as expected if the
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directory name starts with a non alpha-numeric character. This has been
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fixed in Xapian 0.9.8.
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* On FreeBSD, threading issues may cause the daemon to crash unexpectedly.
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A fix is to add the following lines to /etc/libmap.conf (which may not exist) :
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[/usr/local/bin/pinot-dbus-daemon]
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libpthread.so.2 libc_r.so.6
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libpthread.so libc_r.so
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[/usr/local/bin/pinot]
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libpthread.so.2 libc_r.so.6
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libpthread.so libc_r.so
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* If you are using KDE 3.* and pinot-dbus-daemon does not autostart, symlink
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the file /etc/xdg/autostart/pinot-dbus-daemon.desktop to either
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$(kde-config --prefix)/share/autostart (for all users) or ~/.kde/Autostart
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(current user only).
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* Flushing is not directly configurable in Pinot, but some control is
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possible with the environment variable XAPIAN_FLUSH_THRESHOLD. It can be
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set to the number of documents after which changes should be flushed to the
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index. The default value is 10000.
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The daemon explicitely flushes the index once it has crawled one of the
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directories configured in Preferences, Indexing. if this directory has more
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documents than XAPIAN_FLUSH_THRESHOLD, changes will be buffered in RAM until
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the directory is fully crawled.
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