dailydelta1 merge fails after sphinx 2.2 upgrade due to dict=crc, not dict=keywords

[Former user]

I'm seeing the following errors now that I have upgraded to sphinx 2.2:

WARNING: dict=crc deprecated, use dict=keywords instead
FATAL: failed to merge index 'dailydelta1' into index 'main1': dictionary types must be the same (dst dict=crc, src dict=keywords )

I did try to set dict=keywords on all my /etc/sphinxsearch/sphinx.conf indexes, and main1 is set for dict=keywords; but I still get the error above. Any idea what I've done wrong? Do I need to recreate main1?

[Robert Chavers]

I was not logged in when I created this issue. I don't know how to change the creator...

-Rob

[Robert Chavers]

This is the output when I restart the sphinx searchd daemon:

root@piler:/etc/sphinxsearch# /etc/init.d/rc.searchd restart
stopping searchd
starting searchd . . .
Sphinx 2.2.9-id64-release (rel22-r5006)
Copyright (c) 2001-2015, Andrew Aksyonoff
Copyright (c) 2008-2015, Sphinx Technologies Inc (http://sphinxsearch.com)

using config file '/etc/sphinxsearch/sphinx.conf'...
listening on 127.0.0.1:9312
listening on 127.0.0.1:9306
precaching index 'main1'
WARNING: dict=crc deprecated, use dict=keywords instead
precaching index 'main2'                                    
WARNING: dict=crc deprecated, use dict=keywords instead
precaching index 'main3'                                    
precaching index 'main4'                                    
precaching index 'dailydelta1'                              
precaching index 'delta1'                                   
precaching index 'tag1'                                     
precaching index 'note1'                                    
precached 8 indexes in 11.211 sec  

[Robert Chavers]

Here is what main1 and main2 indexes look like from /etc/sphinxsearch/sphinx.conf

index main1
{
        source                  = main1
        path                    = /var/piler/sphinx/main1
        dict                    = keywords
        docinfo                 = extern
        min_prefix_len          = 6
        min_word_len            = 1
}

index main2
{
        source                  = main2
        path                    = /var/piler/sphinx/main2
        dict                    = keywords
        docinfo                 = extern
        min_prefix_len          = 6
        min_word_len            = 1
}

[Janos SUTO]

I also ran into this problem. Unfortunately reverting to dict=crc is not a clean solution, since you can't merge keyword index to crc index. So you may revert to crc, then reindex the last emails. Or stick to keywords, and reset the sphinx indices, and reindex everything.

[Robert Chavers]

I don't mind re-indexing (again). Can you post a quick recipe for me to follow? I'd rather just start fresh with keywords.

Thanks, Rob

[Janos SUTO]

su - piler
indexer --all --rotate
cd /tmp
reindex -a