Solutions to Common Errors I Encountered in Sphinx
In my less-than-a-week journey with sphinx, I have encountered some errors repeatedly. I always told myself that it’s fine.
Would you like to know these errors and how I solved them?
1.
Error: FATAL: CreateService() failed: code=1073, error=The specified service already exists.
Reason: This happened when I wanted to rerun the SphinxSearch service.
Solution: Most times, there wont be any reason to restart this service but when you really need to, delete the service and run again.
To delete, run sc delete sphinxsearch.
2.
Error: connection to 127.0.0.1:9312 failed (errno=10061, msg=No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.)
Reason: This happens when searchd has not been executed
Solution: run searchd — config path/to/sphinx.conf
3.
Error: FATAL: no readable config file (looked in ./sphinx.conf)
Reason: The configuration could not be read.
Solution: run searchd — config path/to/sphinx.conf
When I encounter more errors or mor solutions, I will post here. Till then, you can share your errors with me too.