[Spambayes] AssertionError: hamcount <= nham

[Gerrit Holl]

Gerrit Holl wrote:
> whenever I untrain a spam message accidantly trained as ham, by
> database gets corrupted. I get the following error message:

Unfortunately, it also happens when I don't untrain any message.
It seems like the database gets corrupted whenever two different
processes open it. Do I have to manually configure lockfiles or
something similar?

The error message still is:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/bin/sb_filter.py", line 203, in ?
>     main()
>   File "/usr/local/bin/sb_filter.py", line 199, in main
>     action(msg)
>   File "/usr/local/bin/sb_filter.py", line 132, in filter
>     return h.filter(msg)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/spambayes/hammie.py", line 109, in filter
>     prob, clues = self._scoremsg(msg, True)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/spambayes/hammie.py", line 38, in _scoremsg
>     return self.bayes.spamprob(tokenize(msg), evidence)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/spambayes/classifier.py", line 158, in chi2_spamprob
>     clues = self._getclues(wordstream)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/spambayes/classifier.py", line 395, in _getclues
>     prob = self.probability(record)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/spambayes/classifier.py", line 242, in probability
>     assert hamcount <= nham
> AssertionError

yours,
Gerrit.

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