crash after running notmuch new

[David Bremner]

Matt <mattator at gmail.com> writes:

> thanks didn't know about xapian-check !
> the output
> ===
> docdata:
> blocksize=8K items=70 firstunused=3 revision=421 levels=0 root=2
> B-tree checked okay
> docdata table structure checked OK
>
> termlist:
> blocksize=8K items=186136 firstunused=62058 revision=421 levels=2 root=12260
> B-tree checked okay
> termlist table structure checked OK
>
> postlist:
> blocksize=8K items=2598971 firstunused=61412 revision=421 levels=2 root=49814
> xapian-check: DatabaseCorruptError: Db block overwritten - are there
> multiple writers?
> ===
> suggests there is an error but I couldn't find a fix for it. Should I
> just remove the xapian folder and rerun `notmuch new` ?

If you have a backup of your tags from notmuch-dump, then yes that's
probably a good way forward.   I've put the xapian developers in copy in
case they are interested in trying to debug this corruption. For those
just joining us, this is notmuch 0.29.3 linked against xapian 1.4.15

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