On 4/20/2013 9:08 AM, Ravi Solr wrote: > Thanks you very much for responding Shawn. I never use IE, I use firefox. > These are brand new servers and I don't think I am mixing versions. What > made you think I was using the 1.4.1 ?? You are correct in saying that the > server is throwing HTML response since a group query has been failing with > SEVERE error following which the entire instance behaves weirdly until we > restart. > > Its surprising that group query error handling has such glaring issue. If > you specify group=true but don't specify group.query or group.field SOLR > throws a SEVERE exception following which we see the empty queries and > finally no responses via solrj and admin console gives numFound always > equal to total number of docs in index . Looks like the searcher goes for a > spin once it encounters the exception. Such situation should have been > gracefully handled
Ah, so what's happening is that after an invalid grouping query, Solr is unstable and stops working right. You should file an issue in Jira, giving as much detail as you can. My last message was almost completely wrong. You are right that it should be gracefully handled, and obviously it is not. For the 3.x Solr versions, grouping did not exist before 3.6. It is a major 4.x feature that was backported. Sometimes such major features depend on significant changes that have not happened on older versions, leading to problems like this. Unfortunately, you could wait quite a while for a fix on 3.6, where active development has stopped. I have no personal experience with grouping, but I just tried the problematic query (adding "&group=true" to one that works) on 4.2.1. It doesn't throw an error, I just get no results. When I follow it with a regular query, everything works perfectly. Would you be able to upgrade to 4.2.1? That's not a trivial thing to do, so hopefully you are already working on upgrading. Thanks, Shawn
