Bug#281052: bogofilter: error building wordlists

[Neil Roeth]

On Nov 14, Clint Adams (schizo at debian.org) wrote:
 > > I've downgraded to 0.92, but my /etc/bogofilter.cf has only commented out db_
 > > options, I have no ~/.bogofilter.cf file, and I did not use any command line
 > > options other than -n or -s.  I made no changes whatsoever to the
 > > configuration when I upgraded to 0.93 and encountered the problem, just
 > > upgraded and immediately tried to regenerate the wordlist db.  FYI, with 0.92,
 > > my wordlist db is about 100MB.
 > 
 > I'm not sure that downgrading is a good idea.  Did you get the message
 > that David sent about the FAQ and README.db?

When I downgraded, I wiped out all of the wordlists and regenerated from
scratch, so no danger there.  I got David's message.

 > I think README.db has become more complete and accurate since the
 > release though.

The README.db was very helpful.  Doubling the number of locks allowed the
wordlist building to complete, and when I calculated the number of locks I
should have based on that doc, that turned out to be a decent value for the
size of word list I have.

 > Perhaps when bogofilter dies due to a lock limit, it could suggest an
 > appropriate value for the user to try.

I agree, it could at least say, read the README.db!  Or, since that appears to
be a new file in this release, why not mention it in the NEWS.Debian item that
talks about this change?

Summary: I'm back in action.  Thanks, everyone.

-- 
Neil Roeth