That problem related to the score being computed when it was not in the sort:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-626 To see if this is also your problem, you can make the score in the sort to see if that stops the error. If you have the same issue, you can take the patch and compile your own until it makes it into a stable build. However, if you just have a bad field - this may not fix your problem and your only choice is to clean up the data (think rebuild index). On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Yonik Seeley <yo...@apache.org> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Marc Sturlese <marc.sturl...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I have started working with an index divided in 3 shards. When I did a > > distributed search I got an error with the fields that were not string or > > text. I read that the error was due to BinaryResponseWriter and not > > string/text empty fields. > > I think it's more the case that if you have an invalid field value, it > could blow up at different points in different code paths. The root > cause is still an invalid value in the field. > > -Yonik > -- Regards, Ian Connor 1 Leighton St #605 Cambridge, MA 02141 Direct Line: +1 (978) 6333372 Call Center Phone: +1 (714) 239 3875 (24 hrs) Mobile Phone: +1 (312) 218 3209 Fax: +1(770) 818 5697 Suisse Phone: +41 (0) 22 548 1664 Skype: ian.connor