[chef] Re: The indexer isn't indexing.

[Jon Wood < >]

Further to this, it appears that it's specifically the indexer failing
- messages are getting to the stompserver when I update a Node, but
the indexer doesn't seem to be picking them up.

2010/1/27 Jon Wood 
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 >:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having some trouble with an installation of Chef 0.7.14 from
> Opscode's repository on Debian 5.0.3.
>
> Chef itself has started correctly, and clients are able to connect to
> run recipes from it, however the search index doesn't seem to be
> getting populated.
>
> When browsing the web interface, and selecting the Search tab, I see
> an empty page which the documentation suggests is caused by the index
> not having been created yet. Also when I use Ferret directly it isn't
> returning any results:
>
> infrastructure:/srv/chef/search_index# irb
> irb(main):001:0> require 'ferret'
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> index = Ferret::Index::Index.new(:path => ".")
> => #<Ferret::Index::Index:0x7fddf1df0008 @mon_entering_queue=[],
> @key=nil, @mon_count=0, @writer=nil, @default_input_field=:id,
> @dir=#<Ferret::Store::FSDirectory:0x7fddf1deffb8>, @mon_owner=nil,
> @qp=nil, @searcher=nil, @default_field=:*, @close_dir=true,
> @auto_flush=false, @mon_waiting_queue=[], @open=true,
> @options={:lock_retry_time=>2, :default_field=>:*,
> :dir=>#<Ferret::Store::FSDirectory:0x7fddf1deffb8>, :path=>".",
> :analyzer=>#<Ferret::Analysis::StandardAnalyzer:0x7fddf1defe78>},
> @id_field=:id, @reader=nil>
> irb(main):003:0> index.size
> => 0
> irb(main):004:0> index.search("*")
> => #<struct Ferret::Search::TopDocs total_hits=0, hits=[],
> max_score=0.0, searcher=#<Ferret::Search::Searcher:0x7fddf3ee2ea0>>
>
> The indexer service appears to be running, and the log files claim to
> be indexing things, as shown by the sample below:
>
> [Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:43:23 +0000] INFO: Headers
> {"destination"=>"/queue/chef/index", "content-type"=>"text/plain;
> charset=UTF-8", "content-length"=>"7452"}
> [Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:43:23 +0000] INFO: Indexed object from
> /queue/chef/index in 0.107933 seconds
>
> I'm not really sure where else to look to debug this any further now.
> If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd be very
> appreciative.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jon Wood
>