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recoll doesn't work #128

Closed becker44a closed 4 months ago

becker44a commented 4 months ago

I installed the full-text search tool "recoll" from the default repos. It installed "Recoll 1.36.1 + Xapian 1.4.22". When launched, it offers to index immediately, which I allowed. To this point, it behaves normally. After the indexing, I entered a search term, and clicked the Search button. At this point, recoll caused a forcible logout. It doesn't matter what search term is entered, or whether it should be found or not - it always does an immediate logout.

Testing in a VirtualBox 6.1.48 Virtual Machine. Running under Mint 20.3 on an AMD Ryzen 5800H CPU.

To see if this was an upstream issue, I downloaded Ubuntu 24.04, and installed it in another VM (what an unpleasant experience!). Using apt-get, I installed Recoll (same version as above). In Ubuntu, Recoll does NOT cause a logout when doing a search.

As always, I will be happy to perform any additional tests that would be helpful.

becker44a commented 4 months ago

Just found Issue #35 - after reading that one, my recoll issue may be another instance of that bug.

LinuxOnTheDesktop commented 4 months ago

Here is the Recoll issue tracker, in case we need it.

mtwebster commented 4 months ago

Please provide more info - what Mint 22 edition (mate, xfce or cinnamon), more system details, etc..

becker44a commented 4 months ago

Mint 22 Cinnamon edition, VM settings: 4GB RAM, 4 Virtual CPUS, Vdisk: 40G statically allocated

Installation dialog: .) Initiate install of Linux Mint Responses: Language: English Keyboard: English(US) Install Multimedia Codecs: enable Installation type: something else Partitioning: sda1: 1M biosgrub sda2: 1536M EXT4, /boot sda3: 20G EXT4, / sda4: rmndr EXT4, /home (appx 16G) Note: complained about missing EFI ptn: May create issue installing boot loader. wait & see. . .
Installed and booted no problem. Location: New York Name:xxxxxxxx Computer: lx22 User: alan Password: xxxxxxxxx Encrypt home folder: no Login: automatic Proceed w/ install, reboot when finished.

I saw some indications elsewhere that this issue may be related to running in a VM. I have an old HP notebook for experiments, so trying a similar load to see if recoll fails there or not. Will update when some results.

becker44a commented 4 months ago

Completed load of Mint 22 Cinnamon on the HP notebook HP Pavilion dv6-6117dx 15.6" HD AMD A8-3500M 4GB 500GB Specs: CPU A8-3500M APU 1.5 GHz Ram 4 Gb Hdd 500 Gb NOTE: Mint 22 Cinnamon Install .iso would not boot unless added "nomodeset" kernel parameter

Completed partitioning, User/Account setup, loading & reboot. Set Software Sources. Before doing ANY other settings, installs, adjustments, did the following: .) Recoll test: . Install recoll . Launch recoll . Initiate indexing on alan home . Search for "alan" . Successfully found 2 instances of alan . DID NOT terminate user session ! ! !

This seems to confirm that the issue appears when running in a VM, and not in bare-metal installs.

becker44a commented 4 months ago

In my VM loaded w/ Mint 22 Cinnamon, I tested opening Pix and Rythmbox, and a search in recoll. All crashed the user session, returning to the login screen. After a reboot, I removed gstreamer1.0-vaapi, which also removed mint-meta-codecs. Now Pix and Rythmbox open normally, and Recoll will search as it should. Some limited further testing did not reveal any failures.

As a workaround, this appears to correct the issue. I don't know what is broken or missing as a consequence.

clefebvre commented 4 months ago

Closing as duplicate to https://github.com/linuxmint/mint22-beta/issues/35