Comment 13 for bug 839740

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.
>