Solr delete not working for some reason

Question

Just trying to delete all the documents, and did this:

http://localhost:8983/solr/update?stream.body=%3Cdelete%3E%3Cquery%3E*:*%3C/query%3E%3C/delete%3E
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Answer 1

I got stung with this one recently as well. Just remember that if you have updateLog is configured in solrconfig.xml, but there is no version field in the schema.xml

see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3432

I Spent a good hour on this one!!!