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Nathaniel M. Beaver
Asked: 2013-11-27 16:07:55 +0800 CST

Recoll won't start

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Whenever I try to open recoll, I get a popup box with this message:

Configuration problem: Configuration could not be built:
Explicitly specified configuration must exist (won't be automatically created)

and I get this as stderr:

$ recoll
Got bus address:  "unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-GO0LJ4yYcr,guid=e695867e0d6df401c0df2baf0000dd87" 
Connected to accessibility bus at:  "unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-GO0LJ4yYcr,guid=e695867e0d6df401c0df2baf0000dd87" 
Registered DEC:  true 
:4:main.cpp:143:recollCleanup: writing settings

I've tried deleting the .recoll folder and running sudo apt-get purge recoll && sudo apt-get install recoll, but they didn't help.

Update: version information.

$ apt-cache policy recoll
recoll:
  Installed: 1.16.2-1
  Candidate: 1.16.2-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.16.2-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS
Release:    12.04
Codename:   precise

Update 2: Created bug report.

https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/issue/168/recoll-wont-load-even-after-removing

Addendum: the issue was that I had this in my ~/.profile:

export RECOLL_CONFDIR='~/.recoll'

Since the ~/.recoll folder didn't already exist on my system, recoll quite reasonably showed an error.

12.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Unset RECOLL_CONFDIR, or create the target directory. Recoll will not create a configuration directory which was specified through the environment or the command line (only the implicitly defined default configuration directory will be automatically created).

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