Sphinx Thinking Doesn't Start - "Cannot start searchd daemon"

Question

I am trying to start thinking about sphinx on my server, but it does not want to work.

I do:

$ rake thinking_sphinx:index && rake thinking_sphinx:start 

And I get:

 Generating Configuration to /vol/www/apps/ror_tutorial/releases/20120202111730/config/development.sphinx.conf Sphinx 2.0.3-release (r3043) Copyright (c) 2001-2011, Andrew Aksyonoff Copyright (c) 2008-2011, Sphinx Technologies Inc (http://sphinxsearch.com) using config file '/vol/www/apps/ror_tutorial/releases/20120202111730/config/development.sphinx.conf'... indexing index 'micropost_core'... WARNING: collect_hits: mem_limit=0 kb too low, increasing to 13568 kb collected 0 docs, 0.0 MB total 0 docs, 0 bytes total 0.008 sec, 0 bytes/sec, 0.00 docs/sec skipping non-plain index 'micropost'... indexing index 'user_core'... WARNING: collect_hits: mem_limit=0 kb too low, increasing to 13568 kb collected 0 docs, 0.0 MB total 0 docs, 0 bytes total 0.012 sec, 0 bytes/sec, 0.00 docs/sec skipping non-plain index 'user'... total 2 reads, 0.000 sec, 0.0 kb/call avg, 0.0 msec/call avg total 10 writes, 0.000 sec, 0.0 kb/call avg, 0.0 msec/call avg Failed to start searchd daemon. Check /vol/www/apps/ror_tutorial/releases/20120202111730/log/searchd.log. Failed to start searchd daemon. Check /vol/www/apps/ror_tutorial/releases/20120202111730/log/searchd.log Be sure to run thinking_sphinx:index before thinking_sphinx:start 

My server system is Ubuntu 10.04. Also, it works fine on my local computer (Mac OS X).

My sphinx.yml :

 development: bin_path: "/usr/local/bin" searchd_binary_name: searchd indexer_binary_name: indexer test: bin_path: "/usr/local/bin" searchd_binary_name: searchd indexer_binary_name: indexer 

configurations /deploy.rb

 #Add RVM lib directory to the load path. $:.unshift(File.expand_path('./lib', ENV['rvm_path'])) #Load RVM capistrano plugin. require "rvm/capistrano" require 'bundler/capistrano' #require 'thinking_sphinx/deploy/capistrano' set :rvm_ruby_string, '1.9.3-head' #This is current version of ruby which is uses by RVM. To get version print: $ rvm list set :rvm_type, :root #Don't use system-wide RVM, use my user, which name is root. set :user, "root" #If you log into your server with a different user name than you are logged into your local machine with, you'll need to tell Capistrano about that user name. set :rails_env, "production" set :application, "ror_tutorial" set :deploy_to, "/vol/www/apps/#{application}" set :scm, :git set :repository, "git://github.com/Loremaster/sample_app.git" set :branch, "master" set :deploy_via, :remote_cache default_run_options[:pty] = true #Must be set for the password prompt from git to work#Keep cash of repository locally and with ney deploy get only changes. server "188.127.224.136", :app, # This may be the same as your `Web` server :web, :db, :primary => true # This is where Rails migrations will run # If you are using Passenger mod_rails uncomment this: namespace :deploy do task :start do ; end task :stop do ; end task :restart, :roles => :app, :except => { :no_release => true } do run "#{try_sudo} touch #{File.join(current_path,'tmp','restart.txt')}" end end desc "Prepare system" task :prepare_system, :roles => :app do run "cd #{current_path} && bundle install --without development test && bundle install --deployment" end after "deploy:update_code", :prepare_system 

Answer 1

I solved it. I had a sphinx process in the background, so I just killed it:

 $ ps -efa | grep sphinx root 23823 1 0 14:12 ? 00:00:00 searchd --pidfile --config /vol/www/apps/ror_tutorial/releases/20120202111104/config/production.sphinx.conf root 27069 20413 0 14:49 pts/1 00:00:00 grep sphinx $ kill 23823 

Then I started the sphinx:

 $ rake ts:start RAILS_ENV=production Started successfully (pid 27097). 

Answer 2

It looks like init has already launched a searchd instance bound to port 9312 .

There are several solutions:

• Kill the searchd instance : sudo service sphinxsearch stop .
• Modify config/sphinx.yml and tell Sphinx to use a different port in production. ( config/thinking_sphinx.yml if you are using TS 3.x)
• Configure the server to not start searchd at system startup. On Ubuntu 14.04, you can do this by editing /etc/defaults/sphinxsearch and setting START=no .

Our server runs Ubuntu, and I installed Sphinx from the Debian package available on the Sphinx website.

Answer 3

In my case, I checked this file: ../yourdirectory/log/searchd.log and it was written that: /usr/local/var/data/binlog.002: No such file or directory I only do this:

touch /usr/local/var/data/binlog.002

Done, it works great.