David Bremner <[email protected]> writes: > Andy Wills <[email protected]> writes: > >> >> andy@andy-x200:~/work/talks/2017/icps$ notmuch new >> Processed 230 total files in 7s (29 files/sec.). >> Added 212 new messages to the database. Removed 85 messages. Detected 18 >> file renames. >> Error: A Xapian exception occurred flushing database: Value in posting list >> too large. >> >> ...and it seems that, since I've been getting this error, new emails >> are not reliably being found by, for example M-x notmuch in emacs. >> > > Hi Andy; > > What version of notmuch is that? From the error message it sounds > pre-2014. That particular code was rewritten in notmuch 0.19, so if my > guess is correct it might be fixed by newer notmuch.
The other generic advice is to run 'xapian-check' to check your database for corruption. On Debian and derivatives (e.g. Ubuntu) this is in the package 'xapian-tools'. _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list [email protected] https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch
