Not sure what happened, but after waiting overnight the ERROR indexes have disappeared and I could update the new indexes successfully. For anyone else with a similar situation following this thread, it seems that deleting error indexes can take several hours so be patient! :)
On May 6, 5:14 pm, Ben Gerdemann <[email protected]> wrote: > I tried using "appcfg.py vacuum_index" again today and the indexes > were marked as deleting (or queued to be deleted?) in the admin > console. While this was happening, I tried to upload my application. > Uploading the indexes failed again with the same error. Reading the > first error message more carefully, it appears that I should have > waited until after the indexes were deleted completely before trying > to upload again. Now I'm stuck with two error indexes that I can't > delete. When I try to use vacuum_indexes, I don't get any errors, but > the indexes are still marked as "ERROR" in the admin console. What can > I do? > > On a related note, what kind of support does Google provide for App > Engine? I noticed a lot of posts about broken indexes in the main App > Engine group and sometimes a Google employee would respond directly in > the group asking for the App ID so they could investigate the problem. > There isn't a way to open a support ticket for your app? It seems like > there are some problems with indexes that are impossible for users to > solve themselves and posting for help on the forum hoping that a > Google employee will respond doesn't seem very professional... BUT if > someone from Google is reading this my app is vagabooks, and can you > please delete my indexes? :) > > Cheers, > Ben > > On May 5, 8:50 pm, Ben Gerdemann <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Today I uploaded the first version of my application and got on a > > message about indexes with errors that suggested that I need to vacuum > > them. Strange because my data store is completely empty and I've never > > uploaded anything before... > > > Anyway, I'm using Java so I had to download the Python API and install > > Python (what a pain!) following the instructions > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java/browse_thread/th... > > to create a fake app.yaml. And after all this, I still can't vacuum my > > indexes. appcfg.py found the two indexes with errors, but wouldn't > > erase them. Here's my error message: > > > Are you sure you want to delete this index? (N/y/a): y > > Deleting selected index definitions. > > Error 400: --- begin server output --- > > Deleting a composite index failed: ApplicationError: 1 > > --- end server output --- > > > Is there something wrong with GAE today. Can someone at Google help? > > My App ID is vagabooks > > > Cheers, > > Ben > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google App Engine for Java" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine for Java" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
