[Alexandria-list] Alexandria just stopped being able to find books!

[Dafydd Harries]

Ar 06/04/2005 am 15:38, ysgrifennodd Laurent Sansonetti:
> Hi,
> 
> > On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 14:36 +0200, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> > Hi,
> >> > I installed Alexandria v0.4.0 on Gentoo and it was great! I got 4
> >> books
> >> > in it in a flash. Then something happened and I haven't been able to
> >> get
> >> > it to add a book since then! I really like this program and want to
> >> get
> >> > it to work again, but I'm running out of options. Here are some things
> >> > I've tried.
> >> >
> >> > Unmerge and re-emerge.
> >> > delete the ~/.alexandria subdir
> >> > upgrade to v0.5.1
> >> > mess with gconftool-2 -a '/apps/alexandria'
> >> >
> >> > What specifically doesn't work is:
> >> > Ctrl+N
> >> > Search: by title <anything here>
> >> > Find
> >> >
> >> > It comes back _very_ quickly with nothing.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Can you start Alexandria like this:
> >>
> >>   $ DEBUG=1 alexandria
> >>
> >> Then try to add some books and report the output there?
> >
> > Ah, that did the trick - maybe should add that to the man page?
> 
> Mmh, I did not know that we have a man page :-)
> 
> I shall write some developer info on the website one day.

I wrote a man page for the Debian package. Or rather, I wrote a DocBook
refentry document, which is converted into a man page.

It's included in the Debian diff for Alexandria, the latest version of
which can be grabbed from here:

http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/a/alexandria/alexandria_0.5.1-2.diff.gz

We could look at including it in Alexandria CVS, and perhaps adding a
section about environment variables which mentions the DEBUG variable.

-- 
Dafydd