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From: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] compact: Give user more feedback on failure renaming
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:13:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1381799585-16274-3-git-send-email-bgamari.foss@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1381799585-16274-1-git-send-email-bgamari.foss@gmail.com>

Provide the user with instructions after we fail to move the old
un-compacted database out of the way.

Signed-off-by: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>
---
 lib/database.cc | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/database.cc b/lib/database.cc
index 06f1c0a..57c2292 100644
--- a/lib/database.cc
+++ b/lib/database.cc
@@ -922,7 +922,14 @@ notmuch_database_compact (const char* path,
 
     if (old_xapian_path != NULL) {
 	if (rename(xapian_path, old_xapian_path)) {
-	    fprintf (stderr, "Error moving old database out of the way\n");
+	    fprintf (stderr, "Error moving old database out of the way: %s\n",
+		     strerror(errno));
+	    fprintf (stderr, "\n");
+	    fprintf (stderr, "Old database: %s\n", xapian_path);
+	    fprintf (stderr, "Compacted database: %s\n", compact_xapian_path);
+	    fprintf (stderr, "\n");
+	    fprintf (stderr, "At this point it's probably best to remove the compacted database,\n");
+	    fprintf (stderr, "find the cause of this error, and try compacting again.\n");
 	    ret = NOTMUCH_STATUS_FILE_ERROR;
 	    goto DONE;
 	}
-- 
1.8.1.2

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-15  1:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-15  1:13 [PATCH] Compact tests and error handling Ben Gamari
2013-10-15  1:13 ` [PATCH 1/3] test: Add compact test Ben Gamari
2013-10-20 12:18   ` David Bremner
2013-10-15  1:13 ` Ben Gamari [this message]
2013-10-15  1:13 ` [PATCH 3/3] compact: Provide user with more error feedback Ben Gamari
2013-10-20 18:13   ` Tomi Ollila
2013-10-26 12:26 ` [PATCH] Compact tests and error handling David Bremner
2013-10-27 20:29   ` Ben Gamari
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-10-27 20:30 [PATCH 1/3] test: Add compact test Ben Gamari
2013-10-27 20:30 ` [PATCH 2/3] compact: Give user more feedback on failure renaming Ben Gamari

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