From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: Patrick Totzke <patricktotzke@gmail.com>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: notmuch python bindings corrupt db index (was: gmail importer script)
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:47:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHmME9phAD0JKHDf+1KuCPyo4WXpDW5NESAE_iT3Ruv3bEVCuw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Patrick Totzke
<patricktotzke@gmail.com> wrote:
> I ended up killing the process after i saw that ETA was >3h.
Gmail's bottleneck. Very unfortunate. Leave it going over night.
> This broke my index!
>
> afterwards, a `notmuch new` printed
>
> A Xapian exception occurred creating a directory: Expected block
> 485 to be level 1, not 0.
>
> I wasnt able to properly read the index anymore and had to
> restore an old index dump. not cool!
Can you provide any more information about this? The script properly
uses atomic transactions. Any corruption here is the result of a
notmuch library bug, which should be investigated.
next reply other threads:[~2012-12-11 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-11 13:47 Jason A. Donenfeld [this message]
2012-12-11 18:26 ` notmuch python bindings corrupt db index (was: gmail importer script) Patrick Totzke
2012-12-12 18:35 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2012-12-12 20:49 ` Austin Clements
2012-12-12 21:26 ` David Bremner
2012-12-13 14:33 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2012-12-13 14:32 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2012-12-13 16:16 ` Patrick Totzke
2012-12-15 6:18 ` Austin Clements
2012-12-15 8:25 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
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