Failed to start searchd

[Loganathan Sellappa]

HI All,

I have installed Sphinx from source with pgsql and then installed thinking-sphinx gem(3.0.1)  on my application (Rails 4.0.3). Then I configured & generated the sphinx configurations. Then I added the indices on app/indices and then tried to index & start the sphinx via rake ts:index && ts:start and I got the below error

rake ts:index

Generating configuration to /home/stc/presto/config/development.sphinx.conf

Sphinx 2.1.7-release (rel21-r4638)

Copyright (c) 2001-2014, Andrew Aksyonoff

Copyright (c) 2008-2014, Sphinx Technologies Inc (http://sphinxsearch.com)

using config file '/home/stc/config/development.sphinx.conf'...

FATAL: no indexes found in config file '/home/stc/config/development.sphinx.conf'

rake ts:start

Failed to start searchd daemon. Check /home/stc/log/development.searchd.log.

Failed to start searchd. Check the log files for more information.

In the log file I can see the below errors

[Wed Apr  2 10:40:49.834 2014] [14338] Child process 14339 has been forked

[Wed Apr  2 10:40:49.835 2014] [14339] listening on 127.0.0.1:9306

[Wed Apr  2 10:40:49.835 2014] [14339] WARNING: ERROR: index 'collection_core': RT indexes support prefixes and infixes with only dict=keywords - NOT SERVING

[Wed Apr  2 10:40:49.836 2014] [14339] WARNING: ERROR: index 'resource_core': RT indexes support prefixes and infixes with only dict=keywords - NOT SERVING

[Wed Apr  2 10:40:49.836 2014] [14339] WARNING: index 'collection': no such local index 'collection_core' - SKIPPING LOCAL INDEX

[Wed Apr  2 10:40:49.836 2014] [14339] WARNING: index 'collection': no valid local/remote indexes in distributed index - NOT SERVING

[Wed Apr  2 10:40:49.836 2014] [14339] WARNING: index 'resource': no such local index 'resource_core' - SKIPPING LOCAL INDEX

[Wed Apr  2 10:40:49.836 2014] [14339] WARNING: index 'resource': no valid local/remote indexes in distributed index - NOT SERVING

[Wed Apr  2 10:40:49.836 2014] [14339] FATAL: no valid indexes to serve

[Wed Apr  2 10:40:49.836 2014] [14338] Child process 14339 has been finished, exit code 1. Watchdog finishes also. Good bye!

Regards,
Loganathan

[Pat Allan]

Hi Loganathan

You seem to be using real-time indices - which is great - but that means you don’t need to use the ts:index task. The two main tasks that are useful are:

* ts:generate - which adds/updates all documents in each real-time index.

* ts:regenerate - which stops Sphinx, clears out existing index files, generates the configuration, starts Sphinx and runs ts:generate.

However, you’re also using either min_infix_len or min_prefix_len - and with Sphinx 2.1, the default dict setting doesn’t match with what is needed (as the logs detail). So, if you add dict: keywords to the appropriate environments in config/thinking_sphinx.yml and then run ts:regenerate, you should hopefully have a working Sphinx setup.

Cheers

— 

Pat

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[Loganathan Sellappa]

Hi Pat,

Thanks, It worked once after I added the "dict: keywords" to thinking_sphinx.yml.

Regards,
Loganathan

[Pat Allan]

Hi Charles

The dict: keywords setting is essential if you’re using either min_infix_len or min_prefix_len with real-time indices.

If you’re having different issues with getting Sphinx to start, though, let us know.

Cheers

— 

Pat

On 10 Apr 2014, at 9:16 am, Charles Raimbert <charles....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Loganathan,

Was "dict: keywords" the final solution, or were you able to get searchd to start without it?

Regards,
Charles