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 tried command 'ps | grep searchd' to get process ID, but I didn't get it. Then I tried command 'pgrep searchd', it gives me process ID. I killed that process and ran command 'rake ts:rebuild'. It worked.

I blogged about the entire experience here (disclaimer: I'm the author).