error: no database path specified

[danielkrajnik]

Trying to run astroid for the first time. Run astroid --new-config and then astroid and got:

[2023-06-03 22:43:42.436051] [0x00007f2f87975580] [info]    welcome to astroid! - 0.16.0
[2023-06-03 22:43:42.461052] [0x00007f2f87975580] [debug]   HOME: /home/<USERNAME>
[2023-06-03 22:43:42.461067] [0x00007f2f87975580] [info]    cf: loading: "/home/<USERNAME>/.config/astroid/config"
[2023-06-03 22:43:42.461343] [0x00007f2f87975580] [info]    cf: version: 11
[2023-06-03 22:43:42.461422] [0x00007f2f87975580] [debug]   cf: check config..
[2023-06-03 22:43:42.461433] [0x00007f2f87975580] [warning] cf: missing values in config have been updated with defaults (old version: 11, new: 11)
[22:43:42] [0x00007f2f87975580] [M] [debug] log: stdout: yes
[22:43:42] [0x00007f2f87975580] [M] [info] log: level: info
[22:43:42] [0x00007f2f87975580] [M] [info] date: init.
[22:43:42] [0x00007f2f87975580] [M] [error] db: failed to open database, please check the manual if everything is set up correctly: db: error: no database path specified
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  astroid

My notmuch database is in ~/mail/.notmuch. Can't find any way to point to it though.

[danielkrajnik]

It turns out that "database.path" is set correctly (it shows when running notmuch config list), but isn't set in .notmuch-config. Not sure why? I've run once notmuch set --database command, but why would it move everything outside of this file?

[danielkrajnik]

It looks like it's not just database path. All other values set with notmuch setup except for primary email are not in .notmuch-config and trip arsoid...

[danielkrajnik]

Setting these values finally made astroid happy:

[database]
path=<YOUR-PATH>
[search]
exclude_tags=<YOUR-SWORD>
[maildir]
synchronize_flags=<YOUR-SPIRIT>