[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk server search not working in web UI

[Milan Zazrivec]

> Hello Spacewalk list!
> 
> I've got a rather peculiar issue with my Spacewalk server - I can't search
> for Packages or Errata.  Systems and Documentation search both work. All
> attempts to search for packages result in a match of "No packages."
> 
> The packages are indeed there - I can find them in the channels themselves,
> filter the channels and find packages, install them on enrolled systems,
> and push new packages into the channels.
> 
> I can also find the packages in spacecmd (though it's my understanding that
> this uses a different API entry point to accomplish that search).
> 
> If I stop the rhn-search service, I get "Could not connect to search
> server," as expected.
> 
> Nothing of interest got logged in /var/log/rhn/search, though cranking up
> the log levels to DEBUG finally got this error puked out:
> 
> INFO   | jvm 1    | 2013/05/21 16:25:35 | 2013-05-21 16:25:35,008
> [Thread-7] ERROR com.redhat.satellite.search.index.IndexManager - no
> segments* file found in
> org.apache.lucene.store.FSDirectory@/usr/share/rhn/search/indexes/errata:
> files:
> 
> ...though I have no idea if that is related or not.
> 
> System info/background: Spacewalk 1.8; CentOS 6.4 (Final). System had been
> moved from a Virtualized CentOS 5 system to this hardware CentOS 6 system.
> 
> Thanks for your help!

You can try to clean & rebuild the search indexes with:

    # service rhn-search cleanindex

-MZ