Hi, I checked the logs and it confirms the error is not fatal, it was logged just a few seconds before it was restarted. The node runs fine after it was restarted but logged this non fatal error replayed the log twice. This leaves the question why it died, there is no log of it dying anywhere. We don't recover rsyslogd so it was running all the time and there is no report of an OOM-killer there.
Any more thoughts to share? Thanks Markus -----Original message----- > From:Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org> > Sent: Wed 24-Oct-2012 00:38 > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Failure to open existing log file (non fatal) > > > : Perhaps we can improve the appearance of this - but it's expected to happen > in crash cases. > > in case it wasn't clear: there's no indication that this "Failure to open > existing log file" *caused* any sort of crash -- it comes from the > initialization code of the UpdateHandler when a SolrCore is being created > as part of Solr startup. > > So this is an error that was definitely logged after tomcat was restarted. > > : > It seem the error is more fatal than the error tells me, the indexing > : error and the exception happened within a few seconds of eachother. Any > : ideas? Existing issue? File bug? > > > -Hoss >