ERROR IndexProcessor - 'homePath' tag required in config for index sample when upgrade to 4.2

[zliu]

An error occurred: Failed to run splunkd rest: stdout:

stderr:Initializing applications: D:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps Found application directory: D:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps\gettingstarted Found application directory: D:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps\launcher Found application directory: D:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps\learned Found application directory: D:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps\legacy Found application directory: D:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps\Mailfoundry Found application directory: D:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps\sample_app Found application directory: D:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps\search Found application directory: D:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps\SplunkDeploymentMo nitor Found application directory: D:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps\SplunkForwarder Found application directory: D:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps\SplunkLightForward er Found application directory: D:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps\SplunkUniversalFor warder Found application directory: D:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps\user-prefs Found application directory: D:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps\windows Initialized at least 13 applications: D:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps [build 96430] 2011-03-17 16:25:22 C++ exception: object@[0x000000000372F7E8], type@[0x000000014147C490] Exception is Non-continuable Exception address: [0x0000000076D076FD] Crashing thread: RestTesterThread MxCsr: [0x0000000000001F80] SegDs: [0x000000000000002B] SegEs: [0x000000000000002B] SegFs: [0x0000000000000053] SegGs: [0x000000000000002B] SegSs: [0x000000000000002B] SegCs: [0x0000000000000033] EFlags: [0x0000000000000202] Rsp: [0x000000000372C190] Rip: [0x0000000076D076FD] ? Dr0: [0x0000000000000000] Dr1: [0x0000000000000000] Dr2: [0x0000000000000000] Dr3: [0x000000000275A800] Dr6: [0x0000000000000000] Dr7: [0x0000000000000000] Rax: [0x000000000372C1D0] Rcx: [0x000000000372BCA0] Rdx: [0x00000000000000D0] Rbx: [0x000000014147C490] Rbp: [0x000000000372F690] Rsi: [0x000000000372E8C0] Rdi: [0x000000000372CFC0] R8: [0x0000000000000000] R9: [0x0000000000000000] R10: [0x0000000140000000] R11: [0x000000000372C1D0] R12: [0x0000000000000000] R13: [0x000000000372D5B0] R14: [0x000000000372C380] R15: [0x0000000000000000] DebugControl: [0x000000000372C380] LastBranchToRip: [0x000000000372D5B0] LastBranchFromRip: [0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF] LastExceptionToRip: [0x000000000000004F] LastExceptionFromRip: [0x0000000074CF6E97]

OS: Windows Arch: x86-64

Backtrace: SPLUNK /6.0 Service Pack 2 argv: [splunkd rest --noauth GET /services/admin/localapps/legacy] terminating...

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information

I found the following error in the splunkd.log: 03-18-2011 15:52:32.619 -0400 ERROR IndexProcessor - 'homePath' tag required in config for index sample

[Michael]

To add:

This happened to me when I accidentally enabled the "splunklooger" index (thinking it might provide some useful info). Using 4.2.4 on Linux, this did not happen in conjunction with an upgrade.

Cratered it, couldn't restart. "'homePath' tag required in config..."

Edited the file Splunker_J mentioned (thanks!) -- he was right on. (../system/local/indexes.conf)

Look for:

[splunklogger]
disabled = 0

and change to:

[splunklogger]
disabled = 1

Restarted Splunk.

[zliu]

This is a bug and the workaround is to comment out sample stanza in %SPLUNK_HOME%\etc\system\local\indexes.conf