OK thanks for bringing closure! Accidentally allowing 2 writers to write to the same index quickly leads to corruption. They are like the Betta fish: they fight to the death, removing each others files, if you put them in the same cage.
Mike On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Max Lynch <ihas...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
