* David Bremner <[email protected]> [2025-12-01 14:56]: > "Peter P." <[email protected]> writes: > > > notmuch compact throws > > Compaction failed: A Xapian exception occurred > > and I can't find a way to fix it. Just had my database rebuilt by > > deleting the xapian and xapian.compact folders (to work around a previous > > error) and running notmuch new and notmuch compact. > > It is surprising that a recreated database has errors. > > Can you try running > > xapian-check $DATABASE_PATH/xapian > > and see if there are any errors?
Thanks David! Yes, indeed this finds an error. Does the below printout indicate the problem's source? Is there a fix? The harddrive's SMART overall-health self-assessment and short tests both passed. best, Peter $ xapian-check xapian docdata: blocksize=8K items=160 firstunused=3 revision=409 levels=0 root=0 B-tree checked okay docdata table structure checked OK termlist: blocksize=8K items=312060 firstunused=50679 revision=409 levels=2 root=21330 B-tree checked okay termlist table structure checked OK postlist: blocksize=8K items=2681433 firstunused=66633 revision=409 levels=2 root=7639 B-tree checked okay postlist table structure checked OK position: blocksize=8K items=23056297 firstunused=144292 revision=409 levels=2 root=53867 B-tree checked okay Extra junk in key with docid 65734 position table errors found: 1 spelling: Lazily created, and not yet used. synonym: Lazily created, and not yet used. Total errors found: 1 _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
