On 12/16/11, Austin Clements wrote: > Quoth Nathan Edson on Dec 16 at 1:26 pm: > > On 12/16/11, Austin Clements wrote: > > > Quoth Nathan Edson on Dec 16 at 1:12 pm: > > > > > Since you're now building notmuch from source, could you build it with > > > > > make clean && make CFLAGS=-g and run it under gdb again to get a > > > > > backtrace? I don't understand why strace didn't show it opening any > > > > > mail, but with debug symbols the backtrace should hopefully tell us > > > > > that. > > > > > > > > First, thanks for your help! Perhaps I am making progress... > > > > > > > > Here is what I get: > > > > > > > > yabai at newb:~$ gdb --args notmuch new > > > > GNU gdb (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.2-1ubuntu11) 7.2 > > > > Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > > > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later > > > > <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> > > > > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. > > > > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show > > > > copying" > > > > and "show warranty" for details. > > > > This GDB was configured as "i686-linux-gnu". > > > > For bug reporting instructions, please see: > > > > <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... > > > > Reading symbols from /usr/local/bin/notmuch...done. > > > > (gdb) run > > > > Starting program: /usr/local/bin/notmuch new > > > > [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] > > > > > > > > GLib-ERROR **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./glib/gmem.c:239: failed > > > > to allocate 2147483648 bytes > > > > aborting... > > > > > > > > Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. > > > > 0xb7fe1424 in __kernel_vsyscall () > > > > (gdb) bt > > > > #0 0xb7fe1424 in __kernel_vsyscall () > > > > #1 0xb7ce3e71 in raise () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 > > > > #2 0xb7ce734e in abort () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 > > > > #3 0xb7e87f27 in g_logv () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 > > > > #4 0xb7e87f62 in g_log () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 > > > > #5 0xb7e85c3c in g_realloc () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 > > > > #6 0xb7e50965 in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 > > > > #7 0xb7e50d5d in g_array_append_vals () from > > > > /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 > > > > #8 0xb7e520c0 in g_byte_array_append () from > > > > /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 > > > > #9 0xb7f7fc94 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgmime-2.4.so.2 > > > > #10 0xb7f80fbf in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgmime-2.4.so.2 > > > > #11 0xb7f81761 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgmime-2.4.so.2 > > > > #12 0xb7f829ea in g_mime_parser_construct_message () from > > > > /usr/lib/libgmime-2.4.so.2 > > > > #13 0xb7fc1168 in _notmuch_message_index_file (message=0x13714078, > > > > filename=0x80d0600 "/home/yabai/Mail/old.mail") at lib/index.cc:437 > > > > #14 0xb7fbef9f in notmuch_database_add_message (notmuch=0x806cd40, > > > > filename=0x80d0600 "/home/yabai/Mail/old.mail", > > > > message_ret=0xbffff414) at lib/database.cc:1734 > > > > > > Ah! It did show up in the strace. /home/yabai/Mail/old.mail appears > > > to be the offending file. What's in it? > > > > This is my file full of old mail. I believe it is in mbox format. It > > contains approximately 40K emails...could the format of this file affect > > things? Orginally, this mail was exported from Apple Mail. > > notmuch doesn't support mbox files, but an mbox file looks enough like > a maildir message that notmuch will *try* to index it (but as a > single, gigantic message). This is certainly the cause of the > failure. The immediate solution is to move this file out of the tree > you're indexing with notmuch. > > Still, notmuch should fail more gracefully and you are probably > hitting a real gmime bug (given that it's trying to allocate > (unsigned)-1 bytes of memory). How big is old.mail?
old.mail is about 5gb. I guess the file type is the problem...forgive me, I thought notmuch supported mbox.
