Solr

Joan Moreau jom at grosjo.net
Sun Dec 30 02:46:00 EET 2018


Hi Daniel, 

I am on Archlinux. Anyway, I adapted the scripts. 

2 questions: 

1 - It looks like we are not on the same version . I am on 7.5.0. Which
version are you running ? 

2 - Your conf shows that you let managed-schema but deleted schema.xml.
What is the meaning of each ? 

Thank you 

On 2018-12-22 00:19, Daniel Miller wrote:

> Joan, 
> 
> The reason for dropping squat, I'm assuming, is that Lucene and Solr potentially provide superior features & performance and as they are 3rd-party libraries & apps it reduces the maintenance responsibilities and let's the Dovecot team focus on mail server specific stuff - and let others focus on FTS.  There is a *huge* difference between a functional Solr setup & squat - and if I'm able to get it working we should be able to get you there as well. 
> 
> I don't recall what OS you're running - I'm on Ubuntu 18.04.  My Java version is OpenJDK 10.0.2.  Attached is my complete Solr config.  Try one more time - stop the server, delete the data folder, unpack the attached into the conf folder - and restart.  I also have 
> 
> /etc/default/solr.in.sh:
> SOLR_OPTS="$SOLR_OPTS -Dsolr.autoSoftCommit.maxTime=3000"
> SOLR_OPTS="$SOLR_OPTS -Dsolr.autoCommit.maxTime=60000"
> SOLR_PID_DIR=/run/solr
> SOLR_HOME=/usr/local/lib
> Adjust the above folders as appropriate - or don't use them at all if you're using the defaults. 
> 
> /etc/systemd/system/solr.service:
> # put this file in /etc/systemd/system/ as root
> # below paths assume solr installed in /opt/solr, SOLR_PID_DIR is /data
> # and that all configuration exists in /etc/default/solr.in.sh which is the case if previously installed as an init.d service
> # change port in pid file if differs
> # note that it is configured to auto restart solr if it fails (Restart=on-faliure) and that's the motivation indeed :)
> # to switch from systemv (init.d) to systemd, do the following after creating this file:
> # sudo systemctl daemon-reload
> # sudo service solr stop # if already running
> # sudo systemctl enable solr
> # systemctl start solr
> # this was inspired by https://confluence.t5.fi/display/~stefan.roos/2015/04/01/Creating+systemd+unit+(service)+for+Apache+Solr
> [Unit]
> Description=Apache SOLR 7.5.0
> After=syslog.target network.target remote-fs.target nss-lookup.target systemd-journald-dev-log.socket
> Before=multi-user.target graphical.target nginx.service dovecot.service
> Conflicts=shutdown.target
> [Service]
> LimitNOFILE=65000
> User=vmail
> Group=mail
> ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /run/solr
> ExecStartPre=/bin/chown -R vmail.mail /run/solr
> PermissionsStartOnly=true
> PIDFile=/run/solr/solr-8983.pid
> Environment=SOLR_INCLUDE=/etc/default/solr.in.sh
> ExecStart=/opt/solr/bin/solr start
> ExecStop=/opt/solr/bin/solr stop
> Restart=on-failure
> RestartSec=15s
> TimeoutStopSec=30s
> [Install]
> WantedBy=multi-user.target graphical.target dovecot.service
> If you don't use systemd disregard - but see if any of the above applies for your setup. Let me know what happens.  I agree this can be a mortal pain to setup - but it's worth it.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> On 12/21/2018 4:33 AM, Joan Moreau wrote: 
> 
> Dear Daniel. 
> 
> Thank you for your kind reply. 
> 
> Regarding NFS, no, there is nothing like this in my setup. 
> 
> Deleteing SOLR and recreating it, I did it so  many times already. 
> 
> I started with *your* setup in the first place, as FTS_squat (which actually works very well and very straightforward, I have no clue why going for SOlr which is just a pain and not maintaining squat), and it leads to totally funny results (for instance, I type "emirates" in my "Air Companies" subfolder and get a lot of results .. but of competing companies :D ) 
> 
> I added the fts_enforce following AKi advice. 
> 
> I removed fts_decoder for the time being. 
> 
> I don't know where to go now. Dovcot still returning errors and SOlr still companinig with "Out of range" and other Java errors. 
> 
> Bottom line, I am back to squat, but as it is not maintained so crashed also times to times. 
> 
> I think we should discuss on 
> 
> (1) Why the damn choice of Solr has been main. As you empahised, maintainend so many independent software is a pain 
> 
> (2) If there is a real reason why going for SOlr, how to have a working (i.e. getting the right results to the end user) setup ? 
> 
> (3) If there iare no tangible reason, what about maintaining fts_squat , which did the job nicely for years and no complains about. 
> 
> On 2018-12-16 08:51, Daniel Miller via dovecot wrote: 
> 
> Joan, 
> 
> I understand and sympathize with your frustration - trying to get multiple applications to work together, particularly given the lack of documentation for some of them, can be extremely challenging.  That said, I suggest you consider an alternative viewpoint.  Frequently being misunderstood myself I apologize in advance if I'm reading you wrong - but it appears your view towards the situation is there is a bug in Dovecot related to this problem.  That may well be - but I generally approach these matters from the assumption that *I* made the error in configuration and go from there.  I'm not an official rep for any product nor claim to be any form of expert in these matters - but I do have a working setup and I'd like to help you if I can.  If you're willing to - take a deep breath and let's try starting over. 
> 
> Looking back through your emails there were two items that stood out - your Dovecot config has two settings I don't use: "fts_decoder" and "fts_enforced".  I also asked you earlier whether or not NFS is involved here and I didn't see an answer - please clarify. 
> 
> I suggest you try once more: delete Solr completely.  Re-install per the directions and use *my* managed-schema.  Also comment out the Dovecot directives for "fts_decoder" and "fts_enforced" so you're closer to my setup.  Try running again and then post back - I'll do what I can.  Based on the fact that Dovecot+Solr 7.5+my schema is working for me leads me to believe we can get it working for you as well.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> On 12/15/2018 2:42 PM, Joan Moreau wrote: 
> 
> here my latest schema.xml (remove the "long" type hich seems to be very deprecated in 7.x) 
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <schema name="dovecot" version="2.0">
> <uniqueKey>id</uniqueKey>
> <types>
> <fieldType name="string" class="solr.StrField" />
> <fieldType name="gjlong" class="solr.LongPointField" positionIncrementGap="0" />
> <fieldType name="gjtext" class="solr.TextField" autoGeneratePhraseQueries="true" positionIncrementGap="100">
> <analyzer type="index">
> <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/>
> <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" words="stopwords.txt" ignoreCase="true"/>
> <filter class="solr.WordDelimiterGraphFilterFactory" generateWordParts="1" generateNumberParts="1" splitOnCaseChange="1" splitOnNumerics="1" catenateWords="1" catenateNumbers="1" catenateAll="1"/>
> <filter class="solr.FlattenGraphFilterFactory"/> <!-- required on index analyzers after graph filters -->
> <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
> <filter class="solr.NGramFilterFactory" minGramSize="3" maxGramSize="15" />
> <filter class="solr.KeywordMarkerFilterFactory" protected="protwords.txt"/>
> <filter class="solr.PorterStemFilterFactory"/>
> </analyzer>
> <analyzer type="query">
> <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/>
> <filter class="solr.SynonymGraphFilterFactory" expand="true" ignoreCase="true" synonyms="synonyms.txt"/>
> <filter class="solr.FlattenGraphFilterFactory"/> <!-- required on index analyzers after graph filters -->
> <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" words="stopwords.txt" ignoreCase="true"/>
> <filter class="solr.WordDelimiterGraphFilterFactory" generateWordParts="1" generateNumberParts="1" splitOnCaseChange="1" splitOnNumerics="1" catenateWords="1" catenateNumbers="1" catenateAll="1"/>
> <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
> <filter class="solr.NGramFilterFactory" minGramSize="3" maxGramSize="15" />
> <filter class="solr.KeywordMarkerFilterFactory" protected="protwords.txt"/>
> <filter class="solr.PorterStemFilterFactory"/>
> </analyzer>
> </fieldType>
> </types>
> <fields>
> <field name="_version_" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
> <field name="bcc" type="string" indexed="false" stored="false"/>
> <field name="body" type="gjtext" indexed="true" stored="false"/>
> <field name="box" type="string" indexed="true" required="true" stored="true"/>
> <field name="hdr" type="gjtext" indexed="false" stored="false"/>
> <field name="cc" type="gjtext" indexed="true" stored="false"/>
> <field name="from" type="gjtext" indexed="true" stored="false"/>
> <field name="id" type="string" indexed="true" required="true" stored="true"/>
> <field name="subject" type="gjtext" indexed="true" stored="false"/>
> <field name="to" type="gjtext" indexed="true" stored="false"/>
> <field name="uid" type="string" indexed="true" required="true" stored="true"/>
> <field name="user" type="string" indexed="true" required="true" stored="true"/>
> </fields>
> </schema> 
> 
> On 2018-12-15 20:54, Joan Moreau wrote: 
> 
> Daniel, 
> 
> I have done that so any times (deleteing the data folders, recreating the instance, restarting etc...) 
> 
> But this is really not the issue 
> 
> The issue is 
> 1 - fts_solr reports errors in the log file (this is a pure dovecot issue) : how to have much more details on what fts_solr sends to Slor server and what does it returns ? 
> 2 - Solr returns properly for a few hours, then starts crashing or responding non-sense after some time  
> 
> Additionally, is there a doc of fts-squat in order to adjust the code to new releases of dovect ? 
> 
> On December 12, 2018 4:44:10 PM Daniel Miller via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote: On 12/11/2018 4:46 AM, Joan Moreau via dovecot wrote:
> 
> I shared the errors already so many times (check this mailinling for "solr" in teh title) 
> 
> Contrary to what you say, with SOlr 7.5 and Dovecot git,  I had to remove the "managed-schema" to make solr respond a bit properly. It relies on schema.xml 
> 
> In order to create the instance, no, it copies  the default config in the dovecot instance. 
> 
> I'm not a Solr expert by any means but I believe you are incorrect. 
> 
> As of Solr 5.x the managed-schema file is the primary method for configuration.  The method I detailed previously for setting up a config helps automate creating new Solr instances - but as I stated you can either setup a Solr template and then create the instance from that or create an instance using the default template and then adjust it. 
> 
> The part that you *must* do after creating from the default template is stop the server, delete the entire "<prefix>/solr/dovecot/data" folder, then install the correct managed-schema file, then restart the server.  The server will not function with mismatched schema/data. 
> 
> If you'll try that - explicitly "rm -rf <prefix>/solr/dovecot/data", copy the managed-schema file into the conf folder, and restart - things will either work or there's something else that needs correction. --
> Daniel
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