Hi, I reproduced the bug on solr 4.4.0. The bug is specific to SolrCloud, so the bug occurs only when data has to be forwarded to another node (say I start dataimport on node1 and it forwards data to node2). Here is the log I found on target node:
ERROR - 2013-08-05 11:57:48.739; org.apache.solr.common.SolrException; java.lang.RuntimeException: [was class java.io.CharConversionException] Invalid UTF-8 character 0xfffe at char #6755, byte #6143) at com.ctc.wstx.util.ExceptionUtil.throwRuntimeException(ExceptionUtil.java:18) at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.throwLazyError(StreamScanner.java:731) at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.safeFinishToken(BasicStreamReader.java:3657) at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.getText(BasicStreamReader.java:809) at org.apache.solr.handler.loader.XMLLoader.readDoc(XMLLoader.java:393) at org.apache.solr.handler.loader.XMLLoader.processUpdate(XMLLoader.java:245) at org.apache.solr.handler.loader.XMLLoader.load(XMLLoader.java:173) at org.apache.solr.handler.UpdateRequestHandler$1.load(UpdateRequestHandler.java:92) at org.apache.solr.handler.ContentStreamHandlerBase.handleRequestBody(ContentStreamHandlerBase.java:74) at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:135) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1904) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:659) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:362) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:158) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1419) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:455) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:137) at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:557) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:231) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1075) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:384) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:193) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1009) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:135) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:255) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:154) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:116) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:368) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection.handleRequest(AbstractHttpConnection.java:489) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.BlockingHttpConnection.handleRequest(BlockingHttpConnection.java:53) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection.content(AbstractHttpConnection.java:953) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection$RequestHandler.content(AbstractHttpConnection.java:1014) at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:953) at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:240) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.BlockingHttpConnection.handle(BlockingHttpConnection.java:72) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.bio.SocketConnector$ConnectorEndPoint.run(SocketConnector.java:264) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:608) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$3.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:543) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679) Caused by: java.io.CharConversionException: Invalid UTF-8 character 0xfffe at char #6755, byte #6143) at com.ctc.wstx.io.UTF8Reader.reportInvalid(UTF8Reader.java:335) at com.ctc.wstx.io.UTF8Reader.read(UTF8Reader.java:249) at com.ctc.wstx.io.MergedReader.read(MergedReader.java:101) at com.ctc.wstx.io.ReaderSource.readInto(ReaderSource.java:84) at com.ctc.wstx.io.BranchingReaderSource.readInto(BranchingReaderSource.java:57) at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.loadMore(StreamScanner.java:992) at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.readTextSecondary(BasicStreamReader.java:4628) at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.readCoalescedText(BasicStreamReader.java:4126) at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.finishToken(BasicStreamReader.java:3701) at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.safeFinishToken(BasicStreamReader.java:3649) ... 36 more Any suggestions here? Regards, Federico Chiacchiaretta 2013/8/1 Federico Chiacchiaretta <federico.c...@gmail.com> > Hi list, > > on data import from a PostgreSQL db, I get the following error in solr.log: > > ERROR - 2013-08-01 09:51:00.217; org.apache.solr.common.SolrException; > shard update error RetryNode: > http://172.16.201.173:8983/solr/archive/:org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.HttpSolrServer$RemoteSolrException: > Invalid > UTF-8 character 0xfffe at char #416, byte #127) > at > org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.HttpSolrServer.request(HttpSolrServer.java:402) > at > org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.HttpSolrServer.request(HttpSolrServer.java:180) > at > org.apache.solr.update.SolrCmdDistributor$1.call(SolrCmdDistributor.java:332) > at > org.apache.solr.update.SolrCmdDistributor$1.call(SolrCmdDistributor.java:306) > at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334) > at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166) > at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) > at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334) > at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166) > at > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1146) > at > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679) > > This prevents the document from being successfully added to the index, and > a few documents targeting the same shard are also missing. > This happens silently, because data import completes successfully, and the > whole number of documents reported as Added includes those who failed (and > are actually lost). > > Is there a known workaround for this issue? > > I also filed https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-5101 . > > Regards, > Federico Chiacchiaretta >