Any ideas why Thinking Sphinx Rake tasks are not running?

Question

I\'m finding that Thinking Sphinx sometimes errors out when I try to run its Rake tasks. Sometimes the tasks work fine, and sometimes I get errors like the one below.

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Answer 1

I believe this error is caused when you have a search daemon already running.

Try

ps | grep searchd

if that gives you something like this...

73470 ttys002    0:00.03 searchd --pidfile --config /Users/dwickwire/Projects/production/config/development.sphinx.conf
81907 ttys002    0:00.00 grep searchd

then kill the searchd

sudo kill -9 process_id

process_id in my case would be 73470

Then try rake ts:rebuild again.