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

[David Bremner]

Gregor Zattler <telegraph at gmx.net> writes:

>
> On my way reducing the corpus I had an intermediate corpus of
> ~43000 files on which notmuch new produced a xapian exeption.  I
> kept this corpus but did not include the test results in my email
> because the later, smaller corpus seemed more interesting.
>
> I redid the test on this mid-sized corpus and I got an
> exeption (again):
[snip]
> Error: A Xapian exception occurred. Halting processing.
> Processed 27611 total files in 21m 2s (21 files/sec.).
> Added 27481 new messages to the database.
> Note: A fatal error was encountered: A Xapian exception occurred
> [Inferior 1 (process 6752) exited with code 01]
> (gdb) 

I can finally replicate the crash. I do crash in a different place
(after processing 25184 files), so it suggests a certain non-determinism
or dependence on the host configuration.

Anyway, now that I have a test case, I'll try and figure out what the
underlying Xapian exeception is.

d