From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
"notmuch@notmuchmail.org" <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Cc: xapian-discuss@lists.xapian.org
Subject: Re: How to recover from this permanent fatal error?
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2021 22:37:15 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735txjdmc.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s0L4DL0HBTDsOrQwb5ENpz23G9HmNULwGjt7ChWefMFdA@mail.gmail.com>
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I can't use notmuch anymore, I get this error:
>
> A Xapian exception occurred opening database: The revision being read
> has been discarded - you should call Xapian::Database::reopen() and
> retry the operation
>
> Context. In order to investigate a bug about mbsync I moved away the
> folder ~/mail/.notmuch. I have a timer that calls notmuch new after
> mbsync, so I paused that timer.
>
> Initially I used notmuch, only to see everything empty. Then I
> recalled what I did, removed all the files, and moved back the .nomuch
> directory.
>
> IIRC I was able to use notmuch without problems once, and then I got the issue.
Maybe the Xapian folk will have a more concrete suggestion, but I would
start by running xapian-check on the database. In your case I guess that
should be "xapian-check ~/mail/.notmuch".
You might have to install an extra package to get xapian-check. On
Debian it's part of xapian-tools.
d
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-05 1:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-05 0:44 How to recover from this permanent fatal error? Felipe Contreras
2021-06-05 1:37 ` David Bremner [this message]
2021-06-05 1:40 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-05 2:43 ` Olly Betts
2021-06-05 14:39 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-06 1:45 ` Olly Betts
2021-06-06 4:40 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-06 10:08 ` Olly Betts
2021-06-06 12:48 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-07 3:45 ` Olly Betts
2021-06-07 7:07 ` Felipe Contreras
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