From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: rlane@club.cc.cmu.edu (Rich Lane)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:42:13 -0400
Subject: [sup-talk] crash when sup-syncing to xapian
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Excerpts from Beno?t PIERRE's message of Tue Aug 18 14:20:41 -0400 2009:
> Excerpts from Ben Walton's message of Tue Aug 18 19:35:35 +0200 2009:
> > 
> > I just tried to import my index to xapian and it crashed part way
> > through the import.  I then discovered that I couldn't use ferret
> > either.  There is something wonky with label handling, as per attached
> > exception log.  I haven't had a chance to look at the code yet, but
> > I'll poke at it tonight.
> 
> I think I just ran into the same problem! For now I fixed it with
> the following small patch:

That's odd because the Xapian code passes the labels straight through
from the message to LabelManager. Try instrumenting Message#labels= to
raise an exception if any member of the set is not a Symbol.