Bug: fatal error with notmuch new, second run starts indexing all over again

[David Bremner]

Gregor Zattler <telegraph at gmx.net> writes:

> Hi David,
> * David Bremner <david at tethera.net> [13. Jul. 2017]:
>> Gregor Zattler <telegraph at gmx.net> writes:
>>> I then downloaded parts of the archive, merged and sliced it and
>>> now I have a sample of 25001 total files (that's not much mail),
>>> on which notmuch new produces a xapian exeption:
>>>
>> 
>>> As a tar.xz it weighs 28 MB.  I could provide this for download
>>> if someone is interested.
>> 
>> For me this corpus does not produce an exception (although it does have
>> one thread with 5067 messages).
>
> I cannot view this ATM because I cannot index these emails.  When
> viewd with mutt there are no such gargantuan threads.
>
>> I'm running Debian testing, so there could be slightly different
>> versions of xapian and gmime. What versions of libxapian-dev and
>> libgmime-2.6-dev have you built notmuch against?
>
> Mhm.  I'm running debian stretch.  The versions are:
>

I tried on a debian stretch with the same library versions, and I still
can't duplicate the crash.