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

Tomi Ollila tomi.ollila at iki.fi
Fri May 25 10:03:32 PDT 2012


On Fri, May 25 2012, Tellman <edwint at amazon.com> wrote:

> 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.

Good that it works for you!

Do you happen to know which version of gmime you were using previously --
http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=library&substr=gmime shows version
2.4.23 (but that is just something that internet search presented me)

> Thanks for your help.
>
> --Ed

Tomi


>
> 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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