On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:46:31 +0000, Patrick Totzke <patricktotzke@googlemail.com> wrote: > This commit breaks raising XapianErrors for me. > > If I lock the index with some `notmuch tag +test '*'` > and try to write to it in alot, i get a segfault and > the following on stderr: > > Xapian exception occurred opening database: Unable to get write lock on > /home/pazz/mail/.notmuch/xapian: already locked Can you confirm that this only occurs with this patch and not without? To be honest, I don't see how the patch would change things in a way that make it throw XapianErrors that would not also occur before this patch. Sebastian