I am using Solr 1.4.1(windows os) and below are the settings in my solr config file:
<writeLockTimeout>1000</writeLockTimeout> <commitLockTimeout>10000</commitLockTimeout> <ramBufferSizeMB>32</ramBufferSizeMB> <maxMergeDocs>10000</maxMergeDocs> <lockType>native</lockType> While writing the index, I am doing the post procedure.. posting the xml with solr/update http request. I am gettting the following error. SEVERE: Could not start SOLR. Check solr/home property java.nio.channels.OverlappingFileLockException at sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl$SharedFileLockTable.checkList(Unknown Source) at sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl$SharedFileLockTable.add(Unknown Source) at sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.tryLock(Unknown Source) at java.nio.channels.FileChannel.tryLock(Unknown Source) at org.apache.lucene.store.NativeFSLock.obtain(NativeFSLockFactory.java:233) at org.apache.lucene.store.Lock.obtain(Lock.java:73) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.init(IndexWriter.java:1545) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.<init>(IndexWriter.java:1402) at org.apache.solr.update.SolrIndexWriter.<init>(SolrIndexWriter.java:190) at org.apache.solr.update.UpdateHandler.createMainIndexWriter(UpdateHandler.java:98) at org.apache.solr.update.DirectUpdateHandler2.openWriter(DirectUpdateHandler2.java:173) at org.apache.solr.update.DirectUpdateHandler2.forceOpenWriter(DirectUpdateHandler2.java:376) at org.apache.solr.handler.ReplicationHandler.inform(ReplicationHandler.java:845) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrResourceLoader.inform(SolrResourceLoader.java:486) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.<init>(SolrCore.java:588) at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer$Initializer.initialize(CoreContainer.java:137) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.init(SolrDispatchFilter.java:83) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:295) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:422) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:115) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:4071) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4725) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:799) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:779) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:601) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:675) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:601) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:502) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.check(HostConfig.java:1383) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:306) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:142) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.backgroundProcess(ContainerBase.java:1385) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1649) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1658) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.run(ContainerBase.java:1638) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) What are the correct settings to be made for avoiding this lock file?