David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> In the following situation:
>>
>> - only notmuch config is ~/.notmuch-config
>> - database.mail_root is set
>> - database.path is not set
>> - notmuch database does not yet exist
>>
>> then notmuch wants to create its db under mail_root/.notmuch, contrary
>> to notmuch-config(1).
>>
>
> Thanks for the report. It looks like the case database.mail_root being
> set when database.path is not set is not as well tested as it should
> be. I have updated T055-path-config.sh to remedy this [1]. Most things
> seem to work, but database creating (and upgrading) seem broken.
>

Looking at this a bit more (and fixing a few bugs in those test changes)
I realized the underlying issue is related to what the library
internally callse the "database path" (parent of /xapian) exists. In
particular if .local/share/notmuch/default (or replace default with your
profile name) does not exist, notmuch does not create it. As a
workaround for now you could try creating that directory first.

d
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