Gitea: Failed to ailed to initialize issue indexer: leveldb: manifest corrupted (field 'comparer'): missing [file=MANIFEST-000042]

[TheRealKerni]

• Gitea version (or commit ref):1.8.1
• Git version: 2.11.0
• Operating system: Raspian Stretch
• Database (use [x]):
  
  
  
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• Can you reproduce the bug at https://try.gitea.io:
  
  
  
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• Log gist:

Description

Gitea 1.8.1 stopped starting up while being without any load somewhen in the middle of the night.

There is no setting in app.ini to set anything related to the issue indexer, so it is using the default settings.

The log file shows:

2019/05/22 11:27:43 [I] Log Mode: File(Info)
2019/05/22 11:27:43 [I] XORM Log Mode: File(Info)
2019/05/22 11:27:43 [I] Cache Service Enabled
2019/05/22 11:27:43 [I] Session Service Enabled
2019/05/22 11:27:43 [I] Mail Service Enabled
2019/05/22 11:27:43 [I] Beginning ORM engine initialization.
2019/05/22 11:27:43 [I] ORM engine initialization attempt #1/10...
2019/05/22 11:27:44 [I] ORM engine initialization successful!
2019/05/22 11:27:44 [I] Git Version: 2.11.0
2019/05/22 11:27:44 [...itea/routers/init.go:95 GlobalInit()] [E] Failed to initialize issue indexer: leveldb: manifest corrupted (field 'comparer'): missing [file=MANIFEST-000042]

Please let me know if there is anything else I can provide.

Thanks for any help,
Andreas

[zeripath]

AFAIU You should just be able to delete the indexer files and they should repopulate.

[TheRealKerni]

Ah perfect. That worked!

Thank you.

[IanRCarter]

Sorry to revive a closed issue but I have come across the same problem this morning.

How do you 'delete the indexer files'?

[byumov]

Just remove files:

rm -rf <giteatPath>/gitea/indexers/*

[seichter]

Maybe somebody stopping by: had exactly the same issue and deleting /var/lib/gitea/indexers/* didn't work. There is another folder /var/lib/gitea/data/indexers/*. Emptying this one got me running again.

[S2-]

I had the same issue too, and in my case the indexers folder was in <giteatPath>/gitea/data/indexers/.