[chef] knife search returns nothing

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Hello All,

We recently had open source chef installed at our work place and everything
seems to be working fine except "knife search". The result is "0 items found"
irrespective of anything. 

Eg: knife search node name:*
0 items found

here is the solr.rb config
# Configuration File For Chef SOLR (chef-solr, chef-solr-indexer)
#
# Both the chef-solr and chef-solr-indexer daemons read this configuration
# file on startup, as set in /etc/default/chef-solr*.
#
# The chef-solr-indexer program listens to a rabbitmq-server for the /chef
# queue, for data stored in the CouchDB. When data is saved to the 
chef-server,
# a message is sent to the queue, and the data is indexed and stored by
# chef-solr for search in Chef recipes, or with the 'knife' command-line tool.
#
# chef-solr is a solr-jetty instance.
#
# It is a Ruby DSL config file, and can embed regular Ruby code in addition to
# the configuration settings. Some settings use Ruby symbols, which are a 
value
# that starts with a colon. In Ruby, anything but 'false' or 'nil' is true. To
# set something to false:
#
# some_setting false
#
# log_location specifies where the indexer should log to.
# valid values are: a quoted string specifying a file, or STDOUT with
# no quotes.
# Corresponds to chef-solr or chef-solr-indexer -l
# Both chef-solr and chef-solr-indexer daemons are configured to log in
#   /etc/default/chef-solr -> /var/log/chef-solr
#   /etc/default/chef-solr-indexer -> /var/log/chef-solr-indexer
# respectively. The jetty log for chef-solr is set in
# /etc/chef/solr-jetty/jetty.xml to /var/log/chef/yyyy_mm_dd.jetty.log.

log_location       STDOUT

# search_index_path specifies where the indexer should store the indexes.
# valid value is any filesystem directory location.

search_index_path    "/var/lib/chef/search_index"

# set the jetty path to use Debian solr-jetty. Additional configuration for
# jetty can be found in /etc/chef/solr-jetty (which is symbolically linked to
# /var/lib/chef/solr/solr-jetty/etc).

solr_jetty_path "/var/lib/chef/solr/solr-jetty"
solr_home_path  "/var/lib/chef/solr"
solr_data_path  "/var/cache/chef/solr/data"
solr_heap_size  "256M"

# specifies the URL of the SOLR instance for the indexer to connect to.
# To change the port, modify the jetty.port setting in
# /etc/chef/solr-jetty/jetty.xml

solr_url        "http://localhost:8983";

# uses the solr_jetty_path option set above, and the etc directory is
# actually a symbolic link to /etc/chef/solr-jetty.

solr_java_opts  "-DSTART=#{solr_jetty_path}/etc/start.config"

# amqp_pass sets the password for the AMQP virtual host in rabbitmq-server.

amqp_pass "xxxxxxx"

# Mixlib::Log::Formatter.show_time specifies whether the log should
# contain timestamps.
# valid values are true or false. The printed timestamp is rfc2822, for
example:
# Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:19:46 -0600

Mixlib::Log::Formatter.show_time = true

The solr logs or the expander logs shows no errors. Its just returns saying 
the
hits as "0". Could some one help me on this.

Thanks.

-Ramesh