IBM released a tech document on friday with title: Search fails with the error CLFRW0060E: Input-output exception .
This document solves one of my problems i had in a demo environment since two weeks. I traced the environment, checked j2ee roles, reinstalled CR3 and 4, redeployed search and activities, but i always got an error, when the search wants to access the activities seed list.
So what happened? I want to show the /search/serverStatus page in a course and for this i want to remove all warnings and errors. When you don’t set SEARCH_SEEDLIST_TIMEOUT, you get a warning, that the variable is not set.
So i had set this to 150 and checked the serverStatus page and all was green. So i thought everything is ok and didn’t check the documentation to this. After some hours the search was broken, with the error mentioned above. When i checked the Seedlist URL with the browser everything was ok, when the search wants to access it i got the Input-output exception.
When you read the tech document, you see that SEARCH_SEEDLIST_TIMEOUT is needed in miliseconds! So i had set it to 0.15 seconds and this is too less for activities, all other applications were ok. After reading the document i remembered setting this value and increased it to 15000 and voila the search builds perfectly and all errors are gone.
I learned again that i should read the documentation and that search/serverStatus does not validate the variables, it only checks that that the variable is present. Maybe this should be made as a feature request?
In the trace you see login data and that search can’t access the url, but not that the request timed out.
