Beagle capers - help needed.

I’ve been trying to get Beagle up and running on my computer for a while now. There’s so much information on my hard disk, I’d love something like Google Desktop Search for Linux, and Beagle seems to be just what I need - and more.

The following is only for those who’ve had some experience in Beagle-related matters. The rest, come back later… I’ll come up with entries that make sense to you - I promise. Now, scram!

OK - with Beagle, as you know, things aren’t that simple. Beagle requires d-bus, an inotify-enabled kernel (now optional), and mono. I have all of those installed, and working fine:

dbus - version 0.23.4 (the latest one, 0.31, requires gtk+ 2.6, and I’m still running Gnome 2.6).
mono - version 1.0.6 for SUSE 9.2
kernel - an inotify-enabled 2.6.8 kernel.

I launch dbus with
$ eval `dbus-launch –auto-syntax`

Then, beagled
$ beagled –fg –debug

This connects to the dbus session just fine, and begins indexing all of my data. I now launch best, the nice GUI to beagle. That loads fine too.

The problem is when I type in a search query. If I search for “rahul”, for instance, here is what I get:

The query for rahul failed.
The session bus isn’t running. See http://beaglewiki.org/index.php/Installing%20Beagle for information on setting up a session bus.

I have no idea what the problem is now. Why best can’t seem to detect that a session bus is indeed running, fails me. Someone on Ubuntu’s wiki here had the same problem, but a reboot seemed to fix that for him. I’m not that lucky.

Does anyone have a clue?

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