[chef] Re: Re: solr issue trying to start chef 0.10 rc server

[KC Braunschweig < >]

It would seem the index rebuild was ineffective. I'm able to create
new indexed data (for example a new data bag and data bag item) and it
appears in search as expected. So indexing of new data is happening.
It is just the rebuild of already existing data from the db isn't
happening.

KC

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 6:24 PM, KC Braunschweig
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> Well this is partially resolved. It turns out that although I'd
> installed java (sun jdk), it wasn't properly linked into /usr/bin so
> the app had been trying to use gcj which reports as java 1.4.2 (not
> that it'd probably work anyway) and so it wasn't loading jsp hence the
> solr failure. A proper link to a proper java made it much happier.
>
> So one more time running the chef solr installer, got everything
> started and then ran knife index rebuild. No errors, however, I still
> don't seem to have a search index. For example, clicking on the search
> environment link in the webui ought to return at least the _default
> environment even if no others exist, but it returns nothing. Same with
> the other indexes. Now I'm at a loss again.
>
> As an aside, it looks like /usr/bin/chef-solr-rebuild is still in
> 0.10.0.rc.0 but it seems to be non-functional, I suspect due to a
> change in the way that indexing happens with chef-expander now.
>
> KC
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:01 AM, KC Braunschweig
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>> Yes I had run it before based on this:
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>> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Upgrading+Chef+0.9.x+to+Chef+0.10.x#UpgradingChef0.9.xtoChef0.10.x-UpgradeSolr
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>> Though this is a new install, not an upgrade. Just tried running it
>> again didn't change the symptoms.
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