From: "Peter P." <peterparker@fastmail.com>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>,
notmuch@notmuchmail.org, xapian-discuss@lists.xapian.org
Subject: Re: Internal error: Message without type term
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2023 22:37:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230704203711.ccyuczsacohinswr@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230704002007.GS26907@survex.com>
Olly, David, list(s),
* Olly Betts <olly@survex.com> [2023-07-04 02:20]:
[...]
> Was this database originally created by Xapian < 1.4.22? It looks
> like it could be the result of the bug fixed in 1.4.22 with handling
> commit() failure on disk full.
Indeed I have Debian's libxapian30 package installed which reports
version 1.4.22-1 and I *might* have ran out of disk space in the not too
distant past.
> > >> 2) Move the database out of the way, re-run notmuch new,
> > >> and restore your state using "notmuch restore < notmuch-db.txt"
> > >
> > > I'd be fine regenerating the entire database without a backup dump even,
> > > I don't think there is anything in there that can't be regernerated,
> > > no?
> >
> > The main thing that would be lost is tags that are not synched to
> > maildir flags. In the "standard" workflow "inbox" is such a tag.
>
> If there's tag data in the database which isn't backed up or synced to
> maildir flags, you may be able to rescue it using:
>
> https://git.xapian.org/?p=xapian;a=blob;f=README.notmuch;hb=refs/heads/notmuch-tag-rescue-hack
>
> This creates a file with the tag data in the format `notmuch restore`
> expects. I'd expect this would work for your database as the termlist
> table is mostly OK.
Thank you, I did meanwhile recreate the database from scratch and it
seems to work™.
best, Peter\r
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-04 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-03 7:47 Internal error: Message without type term Peter P.
2023-07-03 10:34 ` David Bremner
2023-07-03 10:47 ` Peter P.
2023-07-03 12:26 ` David Bremner
2023-07-03 12:48 ` Peter P.
2023-07-04 0:20 ` Olly Betts
2023-07-04 20:37 ` Peter P. [this message]
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