Can’t search for “ixml”?

[Norm Tovey-Walsh]

Hello,

I tried searching for “ixml” and got a somewhat opaque error:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error #("[mu4e] Error 113: failed to run query: failed to r..." 1 5 (face mu4e-title-face)))
error("%s" #("[mu4e] Error 113: failed to run query: failed to r..." 1 5 (face mu4e-title-face)))
mu4e-error("Error %d: %s" 113 "failed to run query: failed to read database")
mu4e--error-handler(113 "failed to run query: failed to read database")
mu4e--server-filter(#<process *mu4e-server*> "\37645\377(:error 113 :message \"failed to run query: fai...")

I tried searching for “norm” and it worked. In an effort to sort out where the problem was (had I broken something in my config?), I went out to a shell window.

$ mu find norm
… tens of thousands of messages …
$ mu find ixml
error: The revision being read has been discarded - you should call Xapian::Database::reopen() and retry the operation

So I don’t think it’s *my* fault :-)

Be seeing you,
norm

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[Michael Piotrowski]

Hi,

On 2024-06-11, Norm Tovey-Walsh <n...@nwalsh.com> wrote:

> $ mu find norm
> … tens of thousands of messages …
> $ mu find ixml
> error: The revision being read has been discarded - you should call Xapian::Database::reopen() and retry the operation
>
> So I don’t think it’s *my* fault :-)

Maybe there’s a bad message, i.e., it doesn’t seem to be caused by the search term:

% mu find ixml
[…]
Tue Jun 11 10:45:10 2024 Norm Tovey-Walsh <n...@nwalsh.com> Can’t search for “ixml”?

Just as a data point ;-)

Cordially,
Michael

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[Norm Tovey-Walsh]

> Maybe there’s a bad message, i.e., it doesn’t seem to be caused by the search term:
>
> % mu find ixml
> […]
> Tue Jun 11 10:45:10 2024 Norm Tovey-Walsh <n...@nwalsh.com> Can’t search for “ixml”?
>
> Just as a data point ;-)

Thanks. I didn’t imagine it was the search term, exactly. I was trying to leave things as they were in case there was some debugging info I could extract, but I discovered other problems as well. New mail was being collected but not showing up in the inboxes.

I burned the database to the ground and reindexed. That seems to have fixed it.

Be seeing you,
norm

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[Michael Piotrowski]

Hi,

On 2024-06-11, Norm Tovey-Walsh <n...@nwalsh.com> wrote:

> Thanks. I didn’t imagine it was the search term, exactly.

You never know!

> I was trying to leave things as they were in case there was some
> debugging info I could extract, but I discovered other problems as
> well. New mail was being collected but not showing up in the inboxes.
>
> I burned the database to the ground and reindexed. That seems to have fixed it.

Good to hear!