$ beagled --fg --debug --allow-backend gaimlog
INFO: Starting Beagle Daemon (version 0.1.1)
DEBUG: Command Line: /usr/lib/beagle/BeagleDaemon.exe --fg --debug --allow-backend gaimlog
WARN: Extended attributes are not supported on this filesystem.  Many search backends will not be available
DEBUG: Starting main loop
DEBUG: Starting messaging server
DEBUG: Starting QueryDriver
DEBUG: Found 0 types in EvolutionDataServer, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral
DEBUG: Found index helper at /usr/lib/beagle/beagled-index-helper
DEBUG: Found 1 types in BeagleDaemonLib, Version=1.4.3.3, Culture=neutral
DEBUG: Found 0 user-configured static queryables
DEBUG: Starting Scheduler thread
INFO: Starting Gaim log backend
DEBUG: Starting Inotify threads
INFO: This Computer Hostname: localhost.localdomain
DEBUG: Loading Beagle.Util.Conf+IndexingConfig from indexing.xml
DEBUG: Loading Beagle.Util.Conf+DaemonConfig from daemon.xml
DEBUG: Loading Beagle.Util.Conf+SearchingConfig from searching.xml
DEBUG: Loading Beagle.Util.Conf+NetworkingConfig from networking.xml
DEBUG: Loading Beagle.Util.Conf+WebServicesConfig from webservices.xml
DEBUG: Starting WebBackEnd
INFO: Starting WebServiceBackEnd
DEBUG: Global WebServicesAccess Disabled
DEBUG: Starting Internal Web Server
BeagleXsp
Listening on port: 8888
Listening on address: 0.0.0.0
Root directory: /usr/share/beagle/xsp
DEBUG: BeagleXSP Applications list: /:/usr/share/beagle/xsp,/beagle:/usr/share/beagle/xsp,/beagle/local:/usr,/beagle/gnome:/usr,/beagle/img:/home/orborde/.beagle/img
DEBUG: Daemon initialization finished after 1.74s
WARN: Exception caught while executing Beagle.Daemon.GaimLogQueryable.GaimLogQueryable:Void StartWorker()
WARN: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
in <0x00000> <unknown method>
in (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal:PtrToStringAnsi (intptr)
in <0x0016d> Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteDataReader:ReadNextColumn ()
in (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteDataReader:ReadNextColumn ()
in <0x0001b> Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteDataReader:Read ()
in (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteDataReader:Read ()
in <0x00027> Beagle.Daemon.FileAttributesStore_Sqlite:ReadOrWait (Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteDataReader reader)
in <0x001e7> Beagle.Daemon.FileAttributesStore_Sqlite:.ctor (System.String directory, System.String index_fingerprint)
in <0x0008c> Beagle.Daemon.LuceneQueryable:BuildFileAttributesStore ()
in <0x0002b> Beagle.Daemon.LuceneQueryable:get_FileAttributesStore ()
in <0x0001c> Beagle.Daemon.LuceneFileQueryable:IsUpToDate (System.String path)
in <0x0009a> Beagle.Daemon.GaimLogQueryable.GaimLogQueryable:IndexLog (System.String filename, Priority priority)
in <0x0016a> Beagle.Daemon.GaimLogQueryable.GaimLogQueryable:Crawl ()
in <0x0010d> Beagle.Daemon.GaimLogQueryable.GaimLogQueryable:StartWorker ()
in (wrapper delegate-invoke) System.MulticastDelegate:invoke_void ()
in <0x0003e> Beagle.Util.ExceptionHandlingThread:ThreadStarted ()

(again, did not return to bash. Is it supposed to do this?)