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

[David Bremner]

Leonard Lausen <leonard at lausen.nl> writes:

> I also experience this error trying to import the emacs-orgmode mailing
> list archive. Has there been any progress on fixing the issue? What
> steps should be taken to help?
>
> Also it seems that the midsize corpus
> https://giku.de/reduced-sample-midsized.xapian-exeption.tar.xz is not
> available anymore.
>
> David introduced a patch to improve the error message, below I paste the
> message I get:
>
> add_file: A Xapian exception occurred
> A Xapian exception occurred adding message: Unexpected end of posting list for 'G00000000000255c6'.
> Processed 4949 total files in 10m 13s (8 files/sec.).
> Added 4921 new messages to the database.
> Note: A fatal error was encountered: A Xapian exception occurred

While we're sorting out test data, what versions of notmuch and xapian
are you running?

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