[Xapian-discuss] upgraded 1.0.19 to 1.2.0 - indexing seems to be getting stuck

[Per Jessen]

Olly Betts wrote:

> This is rather odd - nobody else has reported issues (and Linux is
> probably the most used platform for Xapian), and the locking code
> really hasn't changed much between 1.0.19 and 1.2.0.

I guess it might not necessarily be related - I was just surprised to
see the /bin/cat in there.  

> I don't have any good ideas of what might be going on.  You could try
> with this patch which prevents /bin/cat being used - if that fixes it,
> we have something to go on, and if not we might at least get a better
> backtrace:
> 
> http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/patches/xapian-1.2-no-exec-bin-cat.patch

I've tried it, didn't seem to change much. The backtrace looks pretty
much the same. 

> Otherwise I think you'll have to work out what is going on here, as
> only you can reproduce it. 

Yeah, I'll see if I can at least get a usable backtrace.


/Per Jessen, Zürich