Unfortunately as developers we have no access to the actual solr nodes, and certainly no privileges to delete stuff, even in the development environment.
On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > for future reference, a less harsh way to fix it would be to > > stop the Solr instance where the replica resides > > rm -rf SOLR_HOME/collection1_replia1_shard1 > > where "collection1_replica1_shard1" is the directory of the replica in > question, you should see a "core.properties" file in that directory... > > That said, this shouldn't be necessary, just in case. > > Best, > Erick > > On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Webster Homer <webster.ho...@sial.com> > wrote: > > The replica was deleted using the deleteReplica collections API call. The > > call timed out, but eventually completed. However something still held a > > write lock, and it was still held a day later, but the replica was > removed > > as far as we could tell in the solr admin console. > > > > Since it was a development collection, we "fixed" the problem by deleting > > the collection and re-creating it > > > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 2:44 AM, Emir Arnautović < > > emir.arnauto...@sematext.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> How did you delete replica? Did you see any errors in logs after > deleting? > >> How did/does it look from ZK perspective after deleting that replica? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Emir > >> -- > >> Monitoring - Log Management - Alerting - Anomaly Detection > >> Solr & Elasticsearch Consulting Support Training - http://sematext.com/ > >> > >> > >> > >> > On 5 Oct 2017, at 16:17, Webster Homer <webster.ho...@sial.com> > wrote: > >> > > >> > A colleague of mine was testing how solrcloud replica recovery works. > We > >> > have had a lot of issues with replicas going into recovery mode, > replicas > >> > down and in recovery failed states. So to test, he deleted a healthy > >> > replica in one of our development. First the delete operation timed > out, > >> > but the replica appears to be gone. However, addReplica always fails > with > >> > this error: > >> > > >> > Error CREATEing SolrCore 'sial-content-citations_shard1_replica1': > >> Unable > >> > to create core [sial-content-citations_shard1_replica1] Caused by: > Lock > >> > held by this virtual machine: /var/solr/data/sial-content- > >> > citations_shard1_replica1/data/index/write.lock > >> > > >> > This cloud has 4 nodes. The collection has two shards with two > replicas > >> per > >> > shard. They are all hosted in a google cloud environment. > >> > > >> > So if the delete deleted the replica why would it then hold a lock? We > >> want > >> > to understand this. > >> > > >> > We are using Solr 6.2.0 > >> > > >> > -- > >> > > >> > > >> > This message and any attachment are confidential and may be > privileged or > >> > otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended > >> recipient, > >> > you must not copy this message or attachment or disclose the contents > to > >> > any other person. 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