Dear all, I am a new user of Solr. Now I am just trying to try some basic samples. Solr can be started correctly with Tomcat.
However, when putting a new schema.xml under SolrHome/conf and starting Tomcat again, I got the following two exceptions. The Solr cannot be started correctly unless using the initial schema.xml from Solr. Why cannot I change the schema.xml? Thanks so much! Bing Dec 5, 2010 4:52:49 AM org.apache.solr.common.SolrException log SEVERE: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.solr.handler.component.SearchHandler.handleRequestBody(SearchHandler.java:173) at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:131) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1316) at org.apache.solr.core.QuerySenderListener.newSearcher(QuerySenderListener.java:52) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore$3.call(SolrCore.java:1146) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SEVERE: Could not start SOLR. Check solr/home property org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: QueryElevationComponent requires the schema to have a uniqueKeyFie ld implemented using StrField at org.apache.solr.handler.component.QueryElevationComponent.inform(QueryElevationComponent.java :157) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrResourceLoader.inform(SolrResourceLoader.java:508) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.<init>(SolrCore.java:588) at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer$Initializer.initialize(CoreContainer.java:137) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.init(SolrDispatchFilter.java:83) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.initFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:273) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:254) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:37 2) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:98) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:4405) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5037) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:140) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:812) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:787) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:570) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:891) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:683) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:466) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1267) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:308) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:89) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.setState(LifecycleBase.java:328) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.setState(LifecycleBase.java:308) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.startInternal(ContainerBase.java:1043) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.startInternal(StandardHost.java:738) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:140) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.startInternal(ContainerBase.java:1035) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.startInternal(StandardEngine.java:289) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:140) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.startInternal(StandardService.java:442) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:140) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.startInternal(StandardServer.java:674) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:140) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:596) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:303) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:431)