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

Question

I try to start thinking sphinx on my server but it doesn\'t want to work.

I do:

$ rake thinking_sphinx:index && rake thinking_sphinx:start
         


        

Answer 1

I solved it. I had 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 sphinx:

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