I am having the same issue. I suspect you followed the advice on http://answers.splunk.com/answers/35267/very-large-lookup-tables-exceeding-2gb-bundle-size
which removes the lookups from your replication bundle. This is the desired behavior, but then automatic lookups fail. I am trying to find out how to enable automatic lookups only on Search Heads and not get the search error messages.
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