topic What is this error in dispatch process? in Splunk Search https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/What-is-this-error-in-dispatch-process/m-p/404031#M116889 <PRE><CODE>0400 ERROR DispatchProcess - String not found in literals.conf: DISPATCHCOMM:FAILED_TO_START_PROCESS </CODE></PRE> <P>I need help finding out what this is and how to fix it. <BR /> Why is the dispatch process not working? What is dispatchcomm? <BR /> What do you use instead of literals.conf?</P> Tue, 04 Jun 2019 15:59:00 GMT kkovanis 2019-06-04T15:59:00Z What is this error in dispatch process? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/What-is-this-error-in-dispatch-process/m-p/404031#M116889 <PRE><CODE>0400 ERROR DispatchProcess - String not found in literals.conf: DISPATCHCOMM:FAILED_TO_START_PROCESS </CODE></PRE> <P>I need help finding out what this is and how to fix it. <BR /> Why is the dispatch process not working? What is dispatchcomm? <BR /> What do you use instead of literals.conf?</P> Tue, 04 Jun 2019 15:59:00 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/What-is-this-error-in-dispatch-process/m-p/404031#M116889 kkovanis 2019-06-04T15:59:00Z Re: What is this error in dispatch process? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/What-is-this-error-in-dispatch-process/m-p/404032#M116890 <P>@kkovanis - Just make sure you have not made any changes to Splunk's internal configuration file or added any local literals.conf file.</P> Wed, 05 Jun 2019 06:20:27 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/What-is-this-error-in-dispatch-process/m-p/404032#M116890 VatsalJagani 2019-06-05T06:20:27Z Re: What is this error in dispatch process? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/What-is-this-error-in-dispatch-process/m-p/404033#M116891 <P>Did you recently upgrade? literals.conf is deprecated. You should use messages.conf instead.</P> <P>If you did not upgrade, make sure that literals.conf is owned by splunk:splunk and has appropriate read/write access ,and also that literals.conf contains valid stanzas and string definitions.</P> <P>The dispatch process is what returns search results from your indexers to your search head(s).</P> Wed, 05 Jun 2019 18:37:48 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/What-is-this-error-in-dispatch-process/m-p/404033#M116891 codebuilder 2019-06-05T18:37:48Z