You are creating two IndexWriters on the same directory I guess that is the reason for the problem and one holds the lock
Rgds Prabhu On 4/15/06, Puneet Lakhina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > I am very new to lucene. I am using it in my application to index and > serach > through text files. And my program is more or less similar to the demo > privided with lucene distribution. > Initially everything was working fine without any problems. But today > while > running the application i have been getting this exception > > java.io.IOException: Lock obtain timed out: Lock@/tmp/lucene- > dcc982e203ef1d2aebb5d8a4b55b3a60-write.lock > > whever i try to read or write to the index. I am unable to understand why > this is happening. IS there some mistake I am making in the code.. because > I > havent changed any code, which was working smoothly up until today!!! > > My version of lucene is 1.9.1 > > I deleted the index directory and tried again and voila now it works > again!! > But if I am going to be delivering my application I would really like to > know why this was happening to guard against it.. > > Thanks > -- > Puneet > >
