Yeah, there’s a lot to get your head around with Solr, I wish it could be simpler…
If at all possible, I recommend you just re-index the data from the system of record. That aside, you say you “copied the cores”. Is this still stand-alone and did that include the conf directory? What this seems to indicate is that the configuration (your solrconfig.xml file) is incompatible, particularly the suggesters. Suggesters are tricky. There should be more detailed error messages in the solr log file, have you looked there? What I’d do is go into the solrconfig.xml files and comment out all of the suggester-related configurations. See if your cores start (or reload) then take a look at suggesters…. Best, Erick > On Jun 16, 2020, at 12:03 PM, Hammer, Erich F <er...@albany.edu> wrote: > > Disclaimer: My background is Windows desktop and AD management and > PowerShell. I have no experience with Solr and only very limited experience > with Java, so please be patient with me. > > I have inherited a Solr 7.2.1 setup (on Windows), and I'm trying to figure it > out so that it can be migrated to a newer system and to Solr 8.5.2. I feel > like the documentation assumes an awful lot of prior knowledge that I'm > clearly lacking and especially in how to upgrade versions of Solr. As a > "Windows guy" I'm used to binaries and configuration files in separate > locations and upgrading is generally and easy replacement of the binaries and > (sometimes automated) adjustments to the config. With Solr, it's all jumbled > into the same folder structure, and I am trying to track down where all the > important info is set. > > The old setup appears to be a stand-alone system with 5 cores (some of which > may be test/experiments) and what I believe are pretty small indexes and not > using any configsets (although there are a few in there). I compared the > "Solr.in.cmd" files from the old to the default, new and adjusted as seemed > fitting. I was able to successfully start an empty Solr 8.5.2 and view the > admin interface. > > Then, I stopped the service on the old server (it's not a critical system) > and copied the folders for the cores over to the new system. When I start it > up, one of the cores is running and I get errors on the other four. Two each > of: > > Plugin init failure for [schema.xml] fieldType "textSuggest" > Plugin init failure for [schema.xml] fieldType "textSpell" > > I'm not having any luck finding information on how to resolve this. Am I > missing a plugin java library? Where might I get it and/or load it? Is > there some config file I missed from some other location? > > I appreciate any suggestions you can offer. > > Erich >
