From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Andy Wills <home@willslab.co.uk>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: bug report
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 06:09:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ino24jvb.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87poib3tef.fsf@tethera.net>
David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
> Andy Wills <home@willslab.co.uk> writes:
>
>>
>> andy@andy-x200:~/work/talks/2017/icps$ notmuch new
>> Processed 230 total files in 7s (29 files/sec.).
>> Added 212 new messages to the database. Removed 85 messages. Detected 18 file renames.
>> Error: A Xapian exception occurred flushing database: Value in posting list too large.
>>
>> ...and it seems that, since I've been getting this error, new emails
>> are not reliably being found by, for example M-x notmuch in emacs.
>>
>
> Hi Andy;
>
> What version of notmuch is that? From the error message it sounds
> pre-2014. That particular code was rewritten in notmuch 0.19, so if my
> guess is correct it might be fixed by newer notmuch.
The other generic advice is to run 'xapian-check' to check your database
for corruption. On Debian and derivatives (e.g. Ubuntu) this is in the
package 'xapian-tools'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-22 10:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-21 20:35 bug report Andy Wills
2017-02-22 1:29 ` David Bremner
2017-02-22 10:09 ` David Bremner [this message]
2017-02-22 15:31 ` Rafael Avila de Espindola
2017-02-22 15:56 ` David Bremner
2017-02-23 13:32 ` Rafael Avila de Espindola
2017-02-23 14:01 ` David Bremner
2017-02-25 11:33 ` David Bremner
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2020-09-25 12:54 Valentin Kuznetsov
2021-08-02 1:45 ` David Bremner
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