notmuch-emacs bug report -- infinite looping trying to select next message

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

Thanks for the reply!

On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:41:20 +0100, Rodney Lorrimar <dev at rodney.id.au> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:01:56 +1300, Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hudson at canonical.com> wrote:
> > The attached gzipped mbox appears to trip up the emacs interface.  The
> > problem seems to come from the message with id
> > CAGNsrLCWv6=36q+q+5Hc_SzgdZ2ergeKkapT7T3xXvim=2cK+A at mail.gmail.com.
> > 
> > If you load up the thread in emacs, you get a message:
> > 
> > mm-extern-cache-contents: Couldn't find access type
> 
> If you put (require 'gnus-art) into your .emacs and eval it, does the
> problem go away?

No.

> I had a similar problem when running a newer emacs-snapshot with
> notmuch. See this thread: id:"87d3aaqyur.fsf at eve.chaoflow.net"

I'm running emacs-snapshot-gtk from Ubuntu Oneiric, emacs-version says

GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.5) of 2011-08-15 on allspice, modified by Debian

> > Then attempting to advance past the last display message (or pressing A,
> > or a few other things I expect gets emacs to loop indefinitely.
> > toggle-debug-on-quit gets me this backtrace:
> 
> I believe the actual bug is in gnus but I don't really like the loop on
> error behaviour of notmuch. I would like to try and fix it but haven't
> found the time.

As far as I can tell, gnus isn't involved here.  I may be wrong, of
course!

Cheers,
mwh