lei_xsearch: sensible errors for missing/broken externals

I've been creating and destroying lots of externals, lately...

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/LeiXSearch.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/LeiXSearch.pm
index 9f7f3885..556ffd58 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/LeiXSearch.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/LeiXSearch.pm
@@ -572,8 +572,11 @@ sub prepare_external {
                 die "`\\n' not allowed in `$loc'\n" if index($loc, "\n") >= 0;
                 require PublicInbox::Inbox; # v2, v1
                 $loc = bless { inboxdir => $loc }, 'PublicInbox::Inbox';
+        } elsif (!-e $loc) {
+                warn "W: $loc gone, perhaps run: lei forget-external $loc\n";
+                return;
         } else {
-                warn "W: ignoring $loc, unable to determine type\n";
+                warn "W: $loc ignored, unable to determine external type\n";
                 return;
         }
         push @{$self->{locals}}, $loc;