This seems to be sorted. The only problem I still seem to be getting is that sometimes (not always), the nepomuk desktop indexer says that its suspended (it works again fine if I un suspend it, e.g. from the right click on its icon in the system try).

I don't know if this would be problem related to my previous issues? Or whether there is any way of stopping it seemingly suspending itself?

Cheers.

From what I am aware, Nepomuk will suspend indexing at any point where the system is either running on battery (for laptops, etc) or under load (ie. regular user activity). It will automatically resume once the system is connected to AC power, and user activity/load is idle. As far as I know, this behaviour cannot be disabled.

Ah cool, thanks. I wondered if that was the case. I'll mark this as solved!