Any ideas why Thinking Sphinx Rake tasks are not running?

Question

I\'m finding that Thinking Sphinx sometimes errors out when I try to run its Rake tasks. Sometimes the tasks work fine, and sometimes I get errors like the one below.

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Answer 1

The Problem

This problem occurs if your searchd crashed or you killed it manually. On Windows it doesn't overwrite your searchd..pid, so still the old PID is saved and ThinkingSphinx doesn't check the real running processes in your taskmanager. So all these commands (rake ts:restart, rake ts:rebuild, ...) won't work, rake will always abort and you get the error rake aborted, ... searchd already running

The solution

Delete your path-to/your-app/log/searchd..pid.

may be development or production, depending on your current stage.

Hope this answer will help the googler's.