Emacs notmuch-show consistently reports "End of file during parsing"

Tellman edwint at amazon.com
Fri May 25 08:53:31 PDT 2012


I installed gmime 2.4.28 and notmuch 0.12 and that combination seems to work fine.

I'm not sure what the problem was, but it seems OK now.

Thanks for your help.

--Ed

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:04:32PM -0700, Tomi Ollila wrote:
> On Wed, May 23 2012, Tellman <edwint at amazon.com> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the quick response.
> >
> > I have gmime 2.4 installed.
> 
> Gmime 2.4.x -- what is the value if 'x' :D ?
> 
> > I tried the search and show commands and the responses all looked OK to
> > me, although I wasn't quite sure what to look for.  I didn't see any
> > error messages.
> 
> > Here's a sample: 
> >
> > (json-read)[[[{"id": "5qt490ipfnbu1z.fsf at 78ca391a1b82.ant.amazon.com", "match": true, "filename": "/Users/edwint/mail/INBOX/sent/cur/1337734168.4985_755109_1.78ca391a1b82.ant.amazon.com:2,S", "timestamp": 1337734168, "date_relative": "Yest. 17:49", "tags": ["inbox"], "headers": {"Subject": "hi", "From": "Ed Tellman <edwint at amazon.com>", "To": "edwint at amazon.com", "Cc": "", "Bcc": "", "Date": "Tue, 22 May 2012 17:49:28 -0700"}, "body": [{"id": 1, "content-type": "text/plain", "content": "hi\n"}]}, []]]]78ca391a1b82:gmime 
> >
> > I tried a bunch of other ones, and they all looked similar.
> 
> 
> Putting cursor /here (use monospace font ;) and entering C-x C-e parses ......
>            |
>            |
>            V
> (json-read)[[[{"id": "5qt490ipfnbu1z.fsf at 78ca391a1b82.ant.amazon.com", "match": true, "filename": "/Users/edwint/mail/INBOX/sent/cur/1337734168.4985_755109_1.78ca391a1b82.ant.amazon.com:2,S", "timestamp": 1337734168, "date_relative": "Yest. 17:49", "tags": ["inbox"], "headers": {"Subject": "hi", "From": "Ed Tellman <edwint at amazon.com>", "To": "edwint at amazon.com", "Cc": "", "Bcc": "", "Date": "Tue, 22 May 2012 17:49:28 -0700"}, "body": [{"id": 1, "content-type": "text/plain", "content": "hi\n"}]}, []]]]
> 
> ...... the message OK... You could next try to enter
> 
> id:"5qt490ipfnbu1z.fsf at 78ca391a1b82.ant.amazon.com"
> 
> into your notmuch-hello search bar and see if that message shows ok.
> 
> If that does then just some threads makes the parsing fail.
> 
> I have had similar experience: when using gmime 2.4.21 some threads
> (note: not all) make notmuch segfault. Updating to 2.4.25 fixed that
> problem. You may have the same problem or not.
> 
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --Ed
> 
> Tomi
> 
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 08:25:26AM -0700, Tomi Ollila wrote:
> >> On Wed, May 23 2012, Tellman <edwint at amazon.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > I recently installed notmuch on my OS X laptop.  Searching works fine--it
> >> > seems to find all my mail and displays the subject lines, dates, etc.,
> >> > correctly.
> >> 
> >> > However, the emacs mode is unable to display the contents of any of the
> >> > messages.  I see the subjects correctly, but when I try to view the
> >> > actual message, I see: "End of file during parsing" and an empty page.
> >> 
> >> > I have OS X Lion, Emacs.App, version 23.2.1, and notmuch version 0.11
> >> > installed via MacPorts.
> >> >
> >> > Does anyone have an idea what might be causing this?
> >> 
> >> What version of gmime is installed ?
> >> 
> >> Do the following on command line (the l33t... below is 
> >> actually a date 'Tue May 15 23:10:56 2012 UTC').
> >> 
> >> notmuch search --output=threads 1337123456..
> >> 
> >> and then execute
> >> 
> >> notmuch show --format=json thread:000000000000XXXX
> >> 
> >> (take the XXX from the thread list outputted before
> >> -- try many of those and see whether something fails
> >> during execution...).
> >> 
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > --Ed Tellman
> >> 
> >> Tomi
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