I've recently encountered a strange error while batch indexing around 500 average-sized documents:
HTTP Status 500 - null javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException at com.bea.xml.stream.MXParser.fillBuf(MXParser.java:3700) at com.bea.xml.stream.MXParser.more(MXParser.java:3715) at com.bea.xml.stream.MXParser.nextImpl(MXParser.java:1756) at com.bea.xml.stream.MXParser.next(MXParser.java:1333) at org.apache.solr.handler.XmlUpdateRequestHandler.readDoc(XmlUpdateRequestHandler.java:323) at org.apache.solr.handler.XmlUpdateRequestHandler.processUpdate(XmlUpdateRequestHandler.java:197) at org.apache.solr.handler.XmlUpdateRequestHandler.handleRequestBody(XmlUpdateRequestHandler.java:125) at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:128) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1038) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:338) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:272) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188) at org.hyperic.hq.product.servlet.filter.JMXFilter.doFilter(JMXFilter.java:324) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:210) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:174) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:151) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:870) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:685) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) Most other reports of this exception refer to an XML parse error on a particular line / column, however this is not the case in this situation. It doesn't seem to be a problem with the data either, since it fails on different sets of documents on every occasion (i.e. I can't find specific input data to reproduce this problem). Increasing / decreasing the number of documents still results in the same error. The system I'm using consists of Solr 1.3 dev (compiled from SVN on 2008-07-21), Tomcat 5.5.23, and Sun Java SDK 1.5.0-11-1 running on Ubuntu Server 7.10 with all current updates applied. Has anybody else experienced a similar problem to this? Would upgrading either Tomcat / Java help in this instance? Thanks in advance for any help. regards, Pieter