> On May 1, 2014, 1:23 p.m., Frank Reininghaus wrote:
> > Note 1: an even better fix would probably be to repair or delete and 
> > re-create the broken database if a Xapian::DatabaseOpeningError exception 
> > is thrown, but my knowledge of the Baloo/Xapian internals is not sufficient 
> > for that.
> > 
> > Note 2: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333465 is about a crash due to 
> > an unhandled Xapian::DatabaseCorruptError, but without backtrace. Maybe 
> > it's thrown at the same location, I don't know.

Yes, deleting it is probably a good idea if it is corrupted. Hmm, we'll need to 
restart the baloo_file process as well, and then tell it to reindex everything.


- Vishesh


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On May 1, 2014, 1:14 p.m., Frank Reininghaus wrote:
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> (Updated May 1, 2014, 1:14 p.m.)
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> 
> Review request for Baloo.
> 
> 
> Bugs: 333763
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333763
> 
> 
> Repository: baloo
> 
> 
> Description
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> 
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333763 shows that the Xapian database 
> constructor can throw an exception, which is not handled at the moment. This 
> patch wraps all Xapian-related stuff in Baloo::FileFetchJob::doStart() in a 
> try {...} block and catches all exceptions.
> 
> The alternative would be to only add a catch statement for the 
> Xapian::DatabaseOpeningError which seems to be thrown according to the bug 
> report, provided that we can be 100% sure that no other exceptions can be 
> thrown there. IMHO, a library that uses external libraries that can throw 
> exceptions should try as hard as possible to catch all exceptions.
> 
> 
> Diffs
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> 
>   src/file/lib/filefetchjob.cpp 21f5520 
> 
> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/117930/diff/
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> 
> Testing
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> 
> Unit tests still pass.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Frank Reininghaus
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