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

["Scott M. Likens" < >]

Hi Jon,

On the chance that you are still having this issue, there is a issue
with .7 that where ferret will occasionally corrupt the indexes.

The easiest thing to do in this case is to delete the indexes, since you
mention debian I am going to assume you are using .deb's. 

1) turn off chef-indexer (/etc/init.d/chef-indexer stop)
2) rm /var/lib/chef/indexes/* (I believe that's the path, rubygem
installs it's in /srv/chef/indexes)
3) start chef-indexer (/etc/init.d/chef-indexer start)

Unfortunately that does mean all your nodes will need to do a
chef-client run either on it's normal interval or by manual intervention
before it will be re-indexed again.

This issue is fixed for .8 as it uses solr instead... and doesn't
corrupt randomly and easily

Scott


On 1/27/10 10:31 AM, Jon Wood wrote:
> 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
>>
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