Baloo error on startup, everytime

[Grahm]

Executable: baloo_file PID: 1916 Signal: Aborted (6) Time: 04/12/20 09:04:16

On almost every startup, I get an indication on system tray about this Baloo error. Is there anything I can do to fix this ? Thanks.

[GreyGeek]

https://community.kde.org/Baloo

balooctl

balooctl

is a CLI command to perform certain operations on Baloo. The operations are indicated by arguments. All available arguments can be listed by issuing balooctl --help in terminal app, such as userbase:Konsole.

To be noted, argument checkDb is only meant to be used by developers for debugging. All it does is to print some messages but not to sanitize the database. And the execution time grows exponentially with the number of indexed files (see Comment 5 under bug #380465).

When I had that problem I used balooctl to edit the baloo db and fix it. However, I no longer use KMail, and I don't use the KDE search function either, which are the principle users of baloo. For searching I installed "mlocate" and do "sudo updatedb" when I want to refresh so I can search using the "locate" command in a CLI.

[Grahm]

Thanks @GreyGeek

I do not have KMail installed. By KDE search, do you mean the search in the Start Button menu's search bar ? Is there any method to turn of Baloo ( hopefully it won't affect how Plasma works now ) ?

[claydoh]

Baloo is the search and indexing tool for Plasma, mainly Dolphin, as well as file results in the k-menu an krunner. You can turn it off, or change some settings in System Settings' Search section.

[Grahm]

Thanks. I will try.

[jlittle]

You could search the forum for my rants about baloo... But anyway, you should clear out ~/./local/share/baloo, by which I mean delete everything in it. I'd expect that would fix your error message; the next time baloo runs it will rebuild its index in there.

But a corrupt index with a crash on startup is but one of baloo's failure modes, and a relatively benign one at that. Maybe it runs ok for most Kubuntu users, but for some of us it always screws up sooner or later and you might one of us. System settings, search, uncheck enable file search.

[Grahm]

Ok, I cleared baloo folder in local/share . I am a bit worried about not having a search facility inside Dolphin and Kmenu. Because I use it often.

Thanks.