Comment 14 for bug 839740

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haug (josefa4) wrote : Re: [Bug 839740] Re: zeitgeist-daemon crashed with RuntimeError in _check_index(): basic_string::assign

... the same by me...

Am Samstag, den 10.09.2011, 15:00 +0000 schrieb Jigar Shah:

> I get the ceash report consistently. It occurs specifically after a
> restart or login into the system.
>
>
> On Sat 10 Sep 2011 05:41:08 AM CDT, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
> <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> > Ok. The updated crash reports looks sensible. I am still quite in the
> > dark about this, it could be a binding issue or something - do you
> > guys get it consistently or only occasionally?
> >
> > So my guess work so far goes something like this: Consider the buggy
> > expression from the fts.py Python code:
> >
> > query = self._query_parser.parse_query ("zgsu:file*",
> >
> > self.QUERY_PARSER_FLAGS)
> >
> > Since this gives an error in basic_string::assign, which is a C++
> > function, it's probably raising an error from the autogenerated SWIG
> > bindings for libxapian marshalling that into a RuntimeError. Meaning
> > that we are probably passing either a malformed string or a non-string
> > where it expects a string.
> >
> > I tried passing weird combos of strings and ints to parse_query() just
> > now, and no matter how I cut it I can only get it to raise a TypeError
> > ala TypeError: in method 'QueryParser_parse_query', argument 2 of type
> > 'std::string const&'. Never a RuntimeError. So it's something deeper
> > than that.
> >
> > So still in the dark here...
> >
> > @joey - did you manually twiddle with the fts.py file you have
> > installed (like adding debug statements or such)? Oddly enough your
> > line number seems to be off by 2 compared to the 0.0.12 code.
> >
>