Notmuch suddenly stopped working

[David Bremner]

Neeum Zawan <mailinglists at nawaz.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> My setup:
>
> Running version 0.24.2
>
> I use maildir. Suddenly, a few days ago, notmuch stopped indexing. When
> I run notmuch new, I get:
>
> Processed 274 total files in almost no time.
> Added 33 new messages to the database.
>
> But it doesn't get added. No error message. A subsequent run gives me
> the same result (or more "new messages" if new mail has arrived). I have
> a post hook Python script, and it runs fine, but sees no new mails. I've
> set up notmuch to tag all new mails with "new", but none of them are
> tagged that way. I disabled the Python script - it made no difference.

The only things that happen after that message is closing the notmuch
database and running the post-new hook. IIUC, you said you disabled the
post-new hook so that leaves closing the database. Not sure what could
go wrong there, but some things to try

- check disk space
- run xapian-check on the xapian database
  Something like:
            % xapian-check ~/Maildir/.notmuch/xapian

- run in gdb and make sure it really runs the call to
  notmuch_database_destroy
  
- apply the following patch to notmuch-new.c and rebuild to get more
  information:

diff --git a/notmuch-new.c b/notmuch-new.c
index c4345705..447f9f7d 100644
--- a/notmuch-new.c
+++ b/notmuch-new.c
@@ -1280,7 +1280,8 @@ notmuch_new_command (notmuch_config_t *config, int argc, char *argv[])
        fprintf (stderr, "Note: A fatal error was encountered: %s\n",
                 notmuch_status_to_string (ret));
 
-    notmuch_database_destroy (notmuch);
+    print_status_database("notmuch new", notmuch,
+                         notmuch_database_destroy (notmuch));
 
     if (hooks && !ret && !interrupted)
        ret = notmuch_run_hook (db_path, "post-new");

- run notmuch new under strace