I get the same error when I try to sort the result by geo_distance. I am using Solr 1.4 (Nov 2009 release), lucene 2.9.1 and localsolr 2.0. Thank you very much for your support. Here is the stacktrace...
SEVERE: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.lucene.search.SortField.getComparator(SortField.java:496) at org.apache.lucene.search.FieldValueHitQueue$OneComparatorFieldValueHitQueue.<init>(FieldValueHitQueue.java:79) at org.apache.lucene.search.FieldValueHitQueue.create(FieldValueHitQueue.java:192) at org.apache.lucene.search.TopFieldCollector.create(TopFieldCollector.java:886) at org.apache.solr.search.SolrIndexSearcher.getDocListNC(SolrIndexSearcher.java:981) at org.apache.solr.search.SolrIndexSearcher.getDocListC(SolrIndexSearcher.java:884) at org.apache.solr.search.SolrIndexSearcher.search(SolrIndexSearcher.java:341) at org.apache.solr.search.SolrIndexSearcher.getDocList(SolrIndexSearcher.java:1161) at com.pjaol.search.solr.component.LocalSolrQueryComponent.process(LocalSolrQueryComponent.java:286) at org.apache.solr.handler.component.SearchHandler.handleRequestBody(SearchHandler.java:195) at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:131) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1316) -- View this message in context: http://n3.nabble.com/Error-sorting-random-field-with-June-1-2009-Solr-1-4-nightly-tp499042p705720.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.