I also experience this error trying to import the emacs-orgmode mailing list archive. Has there been any progress on fixing the issue? What steps should be taken to help?
Also it seems that the midsize corpus https://giku.de/reduced-sample-midsized.xapian-exeption.tar.xz is not available anymore. David introduced a patch to improve the error message, below I paste the message I get: add_file: A Xapian exception occurred A Xapian exception occurred adding message: Unexpected end of posting list for 'G00000000000255c6'. Processed 4949 total files in 10m 13s (8 files/sec.). Added 4921 new messages to the database. Note: A fatal error was encountered: A Xapian exception occurred Gregor Zattler <telegr...@gmx.net> writes: > Hi David, > * David Bremner <da...@tethera.net> [14. Jul. 2017]: >> Gregor Zattler <telegr...@gmx.net> writes: >>> I redid the test on this mid-sized corpus and I got an >>> exeption (again): >> [snip] >>> Error: A Xapian exception occurred. Halting processing. >>> Processed 27611 total files in 21m 2s (21 files/sec.). >>> Added 27481 new messages to the database. >>> Note: A fatal error was encountered: A Xapian exception occurred >>> [Inferior 1 (process 6752) exited with code 01] >>> (gdb) >> >> I can finally replicate the crash. I do crash in a different place >> (after processing 25184 files), so it suggests a certain non-determinism >> or dependence on the host configuration. > > I would assume the first difference is in the file system: > Perhaps the files are accessed in a different order!? > >> Anyway, now that I have a test case, I'll try and figure out what the >> underlying Xapian exeception is. > > > Thanks. > > Ciao, Gregor > -- > -... --- .-. . -.. ..--.. ...-.- _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch
