I haven't been able to successfully split a shard with Solr 4.4.0 If I have an empty index, or all documents would go to one side of the split, I hit SOLR-5144. But if I avoid that case, I consistently get this error:
290391 [qtp243983770-60] INFO org.apache.solr.update.processor.LogUpdateProcessor – [marin_shard1_1_replica1] webapp=/solr path=/update params={waitSearcher=true&openSearcher=false&commit=true&wt=javabin&commit_end_point=true&version=2&softCommit=false} {} 0 2 290392 [qtp243983770-60] ERROR org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore – java.io.IOException: cannot uncache file="_1.nvm": it was separately also created in the delegate directory at org.apache.lucene.store.NRTCachingDirectory.unCache(NRTCachingDirectory.java:297) at org.apache.lucene.store.NRTCachingDirectory.sync(NRTCachingDirectory.java:216) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.startCommit(IndexWriter.java:4109) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.prepareCommitInternal(IndexWriter.java:2809) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.commitInternal(IndexWriter.java:2897) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.commit(IndexWriter.java:2872) at org.apache.solr.update.DirectUpdateHandler2.commit(DirectUpdateHandler2.java:549) at org.apache.solr.update.processor.RunUpdateProcessor.processCommit(RunUpdateProcessorFactory.java:95) at org.apache.solr.update.processor.UpdateRequestProcessor.processCommit(UpdateRequestProcessor.java:64) I've seen LUCENE-4238, but that was closed as a test error. -Greg