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th3voic3

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Registered: 2012-03-20

Posts: 92

[solved] tracker error initializing libicu support

Hey,

tracker-search from the command line gives me no results and then:

(tracker-search:28193): Tracker-WARNING **: Error initializing libicu support: 'U_ILLEGAL_ARGUMENT_ERROR'

this is on my 64bit Arch Desktop. My 32bit Arch Netbook doesn't have this problem.
Edit: creating a new user on my desktop machine works as well

I really want to use the gnome-shell tracker search extension and I expect that it's not working because of that error

Edit2: Ok maybe interesting for some to now: the Problem was somehow in my region setting. I had English Language, but German format enabled. Because of that
I had no AM/PM behind my clock and this broke tracker somehow. After setting it to United States, everything works.

Last edited by th3voic3 (2012-04-28 17:02:54)

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neubauten84

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Registered: 2010-02-27

Posts: 51

Re: [solved] tracker error initializing libicu support

Hi..I've the same error when I try to use tracker-needle:

(tracker-needle:1571): Tracker-WARNING **: Error initializing libicu support: 'U_ILLEGAL_ARGUMENT_ERROR'

I've everything set correctly and the search runs well in nautilus. What should be??Nothing on the web..

Heinrichmeyer

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Registered: 2012-05-16

Posts: 18

Re: [solved] tracker error initializing libicu support

[confirmation that this tip solved the problem]

I had the same problem:

After not only changing Language to Deutsch but also "Formate" (english translation data formats?) to Deutschland with gnome-control-center, logging out/in again and rebuilding the tracker database my desktop search now works fine.

This program needs a new name, tracker is so hard to  .. track

b9anders

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Registered: 2007-11-07

Posts: 691

Re: [solved] tracker error initializing libicu support

I have the same problem, but I was unable to fix it by harmonising language and format, no matter what languages I set it to.

There is absolutely nothing on google to help with this. How do I make tracker work?