[Xapian-discuss] Re: Search::Xapian::WritableDatabase SIGABRT?

[Olly Betts]

On 2004-12-06, Eric Parusel <eparusel at creativens.com> wrote:
> Searches on both these dbs seemingly work fine.
>
> [snip]
>
> I can email the straces I took for both dbs, without db_lock and with 
> db_lock already present, if requested...
>
> both states result in an abort.

I suspect it's this bug:

http://www.xapian.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55

If it is, it looks like the Perl bindings don't handle C++ exceptions as
they should, at least in this case - both the "with db_lock" and
"without db_lock" cases will throw exceptions, just different ones.

Try applying the patch in that bug, or try a CVS snapshot (the ones
currently available are pretty close to what 0.8.4 will be - I'd have
made the release by now, but I'm presently unable to ssh to James'
colo box which hosts most of xapian.org...)

Cheers,
    Olly