Upgrade 4.0 to 4.2 => Lucene reindex failing

[kbonnet]

Hi Alfrescians,

I'm upgrading an Alfresco 4.0 to an Alfresco 4.2. All went well, except for the lucene indexes. The reindexing starts, but ends in a, so it seems, indefinete "Index cleaner running". I got this message by raising the loglevels for lucene indexing. This is all happening in the startup sequence, so Alfresco is not starting. When i switch the index.subsystem.name to "solr" or "noindex", Alfresco is starting smoothly.

For all attempts i start with a non-existing directory "lucene-indexes" in alf_data. On one attempt, it's only creating subdirectories "users" and locks", on other attempts, it creates them all. It seems a bit random.

There was one time i did get a complete set of new indexes for this contentstore/database, but now it wont work. What can be wrong? Does anyone have experience with this?

At my last attempt, there is one error logged. Not a lot later it stops doing except for logging "index cleaner running"

I have attached the tail from the log.

Thanks for any help.

Koen

[openpj]

Have you followed the supported migration path?
I mean typically you should open a ticket to the Alfresco support before migrating to have from them the correct migration path.

I think that you can't upgrade a 4.0 directly to a 4.2.

Hope this helps.

[hansdebal]

Hi kbonnet,

Did you manage to fix this issue? I have the same problem. Upgrade from 4.0.d to 4.2.f. Server won't start. Also have a lot (!!!) of "index cleaner running" messages.