[BUG] "Error: Cannot open database…" when loading config

[BUG] "Error: Cannot open database…" when loading config

[Alyssa Ross]

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Since commit 1c10d91d ("Pass error message from GLib ini parser to CLI"),
when I run "notmuch config list", I get this error message at the start
of the output:

	Error: Cannot open database at /home/qyliss/state/notmuch/default: No such file or directory.

Presumably this is because my database is in a non-default location,
which it doesn't know until it's loaded the config.

This is especially problematic when using compose-mail in Emacs, because
then the error message ends up mangling the new message:

	From: "Error: Cannot open database at /home/qyliss/state/notmuch/default: No such file or directory.
	To:
	Subject:
	Fcc: Sent
	Alyssa Ross" <Error: Cannot open database at /home/qyliss/state/notmuch/default: No such file or directory.
	hi@alyssa.is>
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Re: [BUG] "Error: Cannot open database…" when loading config

[David Bremner]

Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is> writes:

> Since commit 1c10d91d ("Pass error message from GLib ini parser to CLI"),
> when I run "notmuch config list", I get this error message at the start
> of the output:
>
> 	Error: Cannot open database at /home/qyliss/state/notmuch/default: No such file or directory.
>
> Presumably this is because my database is in a non-default location,
> which it doesn't know until it's loaded the config.

I suspect something is being reported as an error when it really isn't
(the library tries a sequence of things when starting up).

If you can tell me a bit more about your setup, I can try and duplicate
the bug. For starters, where is your config file located, and where is
your database?

You could also try the following patch, which is a bit of a wild guess

diff --git a/notmuch.c b/notmuch.c
index 814b9e42..7e396d43 100644
--- a/notmuch.c
+++ b/notmuch.c
@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
                                               NULL,
                                               &notmuch,
                                               &status_string);
-       if (status_string) {
+       if (status && status_string) {
            fputs (status_string, stderr);
            free (status_string);
            status_string = NULL;

Re: [BUG] "Error: Cannot open database…" when loading config

[Alyssa Ross]

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David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is> writes:
>
>> Since commit 1c10d91d ("Pass error message from GLib ini parser to CLI"),
>> when I run "notmuch config list", I get this error message at the start
>> of the output:
>>
>> 	Error: Cannot open database at /home/qyliss/state/notmuch/default: No such file or directory.
>>
>> Presumably this is because my database is in a non-default location,
>> which it doesn't know until it's loaded the config.
>
> I suspect something is being reported as an error when it really isn't
> (the library tries a sequence of things when starting up).
>
> If you can tell me a bit more about your setup, I can try and duplicate
> the bug. For starters, where is your config file located, and where is
> your database?

The path to my config file is set using NOTMUCH_CONFIG.

My database is ~/mail/.notmuch, which upon further inspection I'm not
actually explicitly configuring anywhere, so I suppose it's falling back
to that after checking that there's nothing in $XDG_DATA_HOME/notmuch.

My XDG_DATA_HOME is /home/qyliss/state btw, which explains why it's
looking there.

> You could also try the following patch, which is a bit of a wild guess
>
> diff --git a/notmuch.c b/notmuch.c
> index 814b9e42..7e396d43 100644
> --- a/notmuch.c
> +++ b/notmuch.c
> @@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
>                                                NULL,
>                                                &notmuch,
>                                                &status_string);
> -       if (status_string) {
> +       if (status && status_string) {
>             fputs (status_string, stderr);
>             free (status_string);
>             status_string = NULL;

This didn't make a difference.

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