Hi Mike, Missed your response on this, What I was doing was physically removing index/write.lock if older than 8 hours, allowing another process of my indexer to run. I realize in hindsight that there is no reason why I should be doing this and it was really stupid. I think I was under the impression one of my pylucene processes was hanging.
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Michael McCandless < luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote: > You can use o.a.l.index.CheckIndex to fix the index. It will remove > references to any segments that are missing or have problems during > testing. First run it without -fix to see what problems there are. > Then take a backup of the index. Then run it with -fix. The index > will lose all docs in those segments that it removes. > > Can you describe what led up to this? Is it repeatable? > > Mike > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Max Lynch <ihas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Missed your response, thanks Bernd. > > > > I don't think that's it, since I haven't been executing any commands like > > that. The only thing I could think of is corruption. I've got the index > > backed up in case there is a way to fix it (it won't matter in a week or > so > > since I cull any documents older than 25 days). > > > > Is there a way to fix this? > > > > Thanks. > > > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Bernd Fondermann < > > bernd.fonderm...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi Max > >> > >> just a guess: maybe you deleted all *.c source files in that area and > >> unintentionally deleted this index file, too. > >> > >> Bernd > >> > >> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 17:10, Max Lynch <ihas...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > I'm getting this error when I try to run my searcher and my indexer: > >> > > >> > Traceback (most recent call last): > >> > self.searcher = lucene.IndexSearcher(self.directory) > >> > JavaError: java.io.FileNotFoundException: > >> /home/spider/misc/index/_275c.cfs > >> > (No such file or directory) > >> > > >> > I don't know anything about the format of the Lucene index, but I > notice > >> I > >> > have several _275* files from b to j but no c. > >> > > >> > Any ideas? > >> > > >> > Thanks. > >> > > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > >> > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > >