Lucene 4.0 on Linux - IndexWriter error: No locks available

Question

When trying to index content with Lucene on linux I get the following error message:

 index/write.lock: java.io.IOException: No locks available at org.apache.lucene.store.Lock.obtain(Lock.java:84) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.<init>(IndexWriter.java:636) 

My code works perfects on Windows and on Mac OS .

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Check locking services in file system where you are indexing

ps aux | grep lockd

for more info :

http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/No-locks-available-td2272029.html https://serverfault.com/questions/61594/what-does-no-locks-available-mean