From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5162D6DE0318 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2017 18:05:47 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at cworth.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.011, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=disabled Received: from arlo.cworth.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (arlo.cworth.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id wEWt67aGdzSX for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2017 18:05:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fethera.tethera.net (fethera.tethera.net [198.245.60.197]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 68F006DE0243 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2017 18:05:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from remotemail by fethera.tethera.net with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1di9CO-00086B-Oc; Wed, 16 Aug 2017 21:02:12 -0400 Received: (nullmailer pid 17401 invoked by uid 1000); Thu, 17 Aug 2017 01:05:43 -0000 From: David Bremner To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org, notmuch@freelists.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] cli/new: improve error reporting In-Reply-To: <20170715020126.16349-1-david@tethera.net> References: <20170715020126.16349-1-david@tethera.net> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 22:05:43 -0300 Message-ID: <877ey3hul4.fsf@tethera.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 01:05:47 -0000 David Bremner writes: > Recently a user reported a crash in notmuch new, but because of > missing error reporting, all they could say was "A Xapian exception > occured". This commit adds the extra information available about > the error message in the exception. pushed to master. Actually, I think another user reported the unhelpful xapian exception recently. d