Thinking sphinx doesn't start - “Failed to start searchd daemon”

1
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rake ts:start gives following error:

Failed to start searchd daemon. Check /home/deploy/megratec/shared/log/production.searchd.log.
Failed to start searchd. Check the log files for more information.

Log contains:

[Sun Oct  2 13:35:38.507 2016] [ 4780] listening on 127.0.0.1:9306
[Sun Oct  2 13:35:38.507 2016] [ 4780] bind() failed on 127.0.0.1, retrying... 
 ... 
[Sun Oct  2 13:36:14.541 2016] [ 4780] FATAL: bind() failed on 127.0.0.1: Address already in use
[Sun Oct  2 13:36:14.543 2016] [ 4779] watchdog: main process 4780 exited cleanly (exit code 1), shutting down

ps -efa shows no searchd running.

SOS! Thanks :)

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ruby-on-railssphinxthinking-sphinx

1 Answers

3
votes

1) Found searchd with ps -aux (no idea why ps -efa did nit work)

2) killed it with sudo service sphinxsearch stop (rake ts:stop and killing searchd process manually did not work).

3) Finally, rake ts:rebuild brought sphinx back to life.