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OpusOne

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Registered: 2023-05-31

Posts: 121

[Solved] Unable to stop baloo indexing

Using KDE Plasma 6 here. I noticed at my last reboot that baloo was taking a lot of time and SSD bandwidth to index files.
I then remembered that I had copied a large directory in my home directory, that I didn't care to index. So I excluded it from indexing.
After that, I ran:

balooctl6 suspend
balooctl6 purge

But the latter command would fail every time with:

Stopping the File Indexer ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... - failed to stop!

I then tried stopping the service manually with:

systemctl --user stop plasma-baloorunner.service

The service stopped. But the '/usr/lib/kf6/baloo_file' process kept running. What a bummer. What's the correct way of handling this? Is this a known issue?

Edit: For the record, I just killed the baloo_file process hoping it wouldn't cause issues. I was going to purge the index anyway. That did allow the 'balooctl6 purge' command to succeed.
From what I've read, baloo looks like a bit of a dog. It hasn't caused me much problems previously, but in hindsight, I think this isn't the first time I noticed that once the indexer was running, it was impossible to stop it, short of killing the corresponding processes. Not very pretty.

Last edited by OpusOne (2024-07-24 06:05:05)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 56,103

Re: [Solved] Unable to stop baloo indexing

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487916#c3

pkill baloo_file
pkill -9 baloo_file

The process probably doesn't respond because it's busy watching your porn

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OpusOne

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Registered: 2023-05-31

Posts: 121

Re: [Solved] Unable to stop baloo indexing

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487916#c3

pkill baloo_file
pkill -9 baloo_file

The process probably doesn't respond because it's busy watching your porn

Lol. Our posts crossed. I edited and yes, I killed it. As I said, baloo doesn't look like it's very well uh, written. Or something. Oh well.