Hi Jess, Thank you for reply. At the same time I got a reply from Sphinx suggesting to install a new version 2.2.11. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
I appreciate your help and your time.
Thanks,
Dmitri
http://sphinxsearch.com/bugs/view.php?id=2676
2.2.1 is an aged version and a beta one to begin with…
Please try upgrading to, at the very least, 2.2.11, or 2.3.2, and ideally the latest 3.0.2, and see if a newer version works.
Simply replacing the indexer and searchd binaries should work for a test upgrade.
I’ll close the issue for now but feel free to reopen it if 3.0.2 is still crashing.
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there must be a compatibility on the data. And if possible, the best way is to clean up the old data completely and re-index it from scratch. in the framework of one major version (and even most likely with a major version change), you can always just take and replace the old binaries with new ones.