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

In thinking_sphinx 1.4.4 there is a 5 second timeout on rake ts:stop

If rake ts:stop takes close to or longer than 5 seconds, ruby will throw an exception.

I'm using the thinking_sphinx 1.3.18 in the meantime. (there is no timeout on 1.3.18).

Also I have submitted a patch to the github repository and the timeout will be configurable with a sphinx.yml configuration variable stop_timeout.

NOTE: rake ts:rebuild == rake ts:stop; rake ts:index; rake ts:start