It seems odd, but consider "create" rather than "reload". Create will load up an existing core, think of it as "create in memory" rather than "create on disk" for the case where there's already an index.
Best Erick On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Peter Kirk <p...@alpha-solutions.dk> wrote: > Hi > > I have a multi-core installation, with 2 cores. Sometimes, when Solr starts > up, one of the cores fails (due to an extension to Solr I have, which is > waiting on an external service which has yet to initialise). > > In previous versions of Solr, I could subsequently issue a RELOAD to this > core, even though it was in a "fail" state, and it would reload and start up. > Now it seems with Solr 4, I cannot issue a RELOAD to a core which has failed. > > Is this the case? > > How can I get Solr to start a core which failed on initial start up? > > Thanks, > Peter > > > >