Not able to start Sphinx Search- error 1067

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I am trying to install the Sphinx Search Server. I followed the steps given here http://itsonrail.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/installing-sphinx-on%C2%A0windows/

I added C:\Sphinx\bin to environment path and Sphinx Search is listed in the Services panel. When I try to start it, this error occurs:

Windows could not start SphinxSearch service on local computer Error: 1067 The process terminated unexpectedly.

Please help me solving this problem. Thanks in advance.

I trid this http://sphinxsearch.com/forum/view.html?id=2684 but it didn't help.

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7 Answers

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I had the same error in my Windows 7 x64. The step below helped to solve my problem:

Create folders data and log in C:\Sphinx. Then try to start sphinx with cmd:

C:\sphinx\bin>searchd
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I have faced the same problem and eventually moved the sphnix.conf to C:\Sphinx\bin\sphnix.conf from root and the services starts. Please try this. (Please make sure there are data\, log\ directories in the root with write permission)

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It is looking like your configuration is not setup properly. Have you tried to run search daemon from sphinx directory path via command prompt?

C:\sphinx\bin> searchd
C:\sphinx\bin>indexer --rotate –all

Also please ensure the log via search.log or windows event log.

If it is not running after this than try to reinstall it again

I hope it will work for you

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Error 1067 doesn't say much about the problem, except that the process terminated unexpectedly. Try looking some more informations in searchd.log.

I've got same error code when I tried to update Sphinx with newer version. In the log file, I've found

FATAL: no valid indexes to serve

My problem was that I tried running new version of Sphinx using index files created with an older version. It was solved by deleting all old index files and creating new indexes.

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==>> close your cmd window and restart the sphinxsearch service...

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I got this error suddenly, when Shpinx was working fine yesterday. Turns out the query log file was hitting 4Gb in size. I deleted it, and service started with no problems.

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Make sure all the folders defined in the conf file actually exist. I was missing the LOG folder and that's why I was getting the error. Once I added the folder, the problem was solved.