Baloo failed to stop

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Baloo is heating up my appartment:
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I disabled it with
$ balooctl6 disable

It is still running

$ balooctl6 purge
Stopping the File Indexer ..................................................................................................................................
............................................................................................................................................................
................. - failed to stop!

And for crying out loud why:

$ man baloo
No manual entry for baloo

I can not remove with dnf remove. Or does one simple remove the binaries?

-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 158792 10. Mär 01:00 /usr/bin/balooctl6
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  20240  8. Mär 01:00 /usr/bin/baloo_filemetadata_temp_extractor
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  32744 10. Mär 01:00 /usr/bin/baloosearch6
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  53680 10. Mär 01:00 /usr/bin/balooshow6

Btw it is fidgiting with apparently one file that opens up without a problem:

$ balooctl6 monitor
Press ctrl+c to stop monitoring
File indexer is running
Indexing file content
Indexing: /home/j/Nextcloud.old/Documents/01 Hobbies/Handboeken/Audio&Muziek/Teenage Engineering/OP-1 Manual.pdf

It is not continuing beyond this.

And even after

$ balooctl6 status
Baloo is currently disabled. To enable, please run balooctl enable

baloo_file_extr is still using 99% CPU

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Didn’t you already enter the command ‘balooctl6’?

Also: It doesn’t ship with a man page because KDE developers document it in online resources and help output ( balooctl --help ), not in traditional manpages.

That’s like typing ‘ls’ and then doing ‘man l’ and asking ‘why?’ when it’s broken…

> balooctl6 --help

Usage: balooctl6 [options] command status enable disable purge suspend resume check index clear config monitor indexSize failed

Options:
  -f, --format <format>  Output format <multiline|json|simple>.
                         The default format is "multiline".
                         Only applies to "balooctl status <file>"
  -v, --version          Displays version information.
  -h, --help             Displays help on commandline options.
  --help-all             Displays help, including generic Qt options.

Arguments:
  command                The command to execute
  status                 Print the status of the indexer
  enable                 Enable the file indexer
  disable                Disable the file indexer
  purge                  Remove the index database
  suspend                Suspend the file indexer
  resume                 Resume the file indexer
  check                  Check for any unindexed files and index them
  index                  Index the specified files
  clear                  Forget the specified files
  config                 Modify the Baloo configuration
  monitor                Monitor the file indexer
  indexSize              Display the disk space used by index
  failed                 Display files which could not be indexed

Go into File Search, set to ‘File Names Only’ and disable locations… especially Nextcloud.

Just let it run in your Home.

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I have never been at those locations and wonder why this all off sudden popups when I just want to get work done.:laughing:

I tried to uninstall baloo cause I have never used it and see no need for it

$ sudo dnf remove kf6-baloo
[sudo] password for j: 
Failed to resolve the transaction:
Problem: installed package plasma-workspace-6.6.3-1.fc43.x86_64 requires kf6-baloo, but none of the providers can be installed
  - installed package plasma-desktop-6.6.3-1.fc43.x86_64 requires plasma-workspace, but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
  - problem with installed package

But I moved everything baloo related

mv /usr/bin/baloo* /tmp

And have peace :love_you_gesture:

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Balloo tries to index everything that’s visible in your /home.

You obviously have this folder `/j/Nextcloud.old/'. You could rename it to hide it, or simply exclude it from Baloo.

Why would you say you’ve never been there if it’s in your /home directory?

All you’ve done is butcher your system, it’s now broken and you haven’t solved the issue - just masked it before the next update.

Also, marking this as a solution is a potentially dangerous entry to the forum for anyone looking for a solution.

There is a GUI for noobs…

It says - Stop Indexing a Folder...

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I’ve been never in the settings you suggest just to make clear that they apparently where ootb and I didn´t mess with them.

Somehow I feel that the nextcloud server was the problem. Unrelated did an update and the problem went away.

I might copy the binaries back to /usr/bin

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That’s a bug for the baloo_file_extractor.

Could you share the file OP-1 Manual.pdf, in a bug report.

Uninstall baloo is ok as a workaround but informing the devs and other users (that’s the purpose of the bug tracker) will allow to actually fix the issue…

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Love to, Baloo is not listed as an application

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I finished qualifying the bug (with a gdb trace when the process hangs), it seems like an issue in upstream poppler, but the file renders fine in okular, so that might not be it.

Thanks again for the bug report and the file, this makes the bug much easier to reproduce and eventually fix.

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