Database corruption after clean rebuild

[David Bremner]

Javier Garcia <javiertury at gmail.com> writes:

> Unfortunately I can't share my emails without the approval of other
> parties. The minimum subsets that trigger the error are in the range of
> 1000-5000 mails, so asking each and everyone of them is out of my reach.
> I tried to replicate the problem using just spam folders without success.
>
> The following is a solid workaround I've stumbled upon. Afew no longer
> complains and database corruption is gone.
>
> $ notmuch compact
> $ xapian-check ~/.mail/.notmuch/xapian
> Â Â  <check messages>
> Â Â  No errors found

Right, I should have thought of compaction, that's a workaround Olly
mentioned before. That strongly suggests that you are hitting the known
Xapian bug.


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