question-mark
Stuck on an issue?

Lightrun Answers was designed to reduce the constant googling that comes with debugging 3rd party libraries. It collects links to all the places you might be looking at while hunting down a tough bug.

And, if you’re still stuck at the end, we’re happy to hop on a call to see how we can help out.

Local message search event index failed to initialise

See original GitHub issue

Steps to reproduce

  1. My local event index got corrupted on Element Desktop
  2. Try to follow the options to recover
  3. That didn’t work, disable search altogether
  4. Try to re-enable it

Outcome

What did you expect?

For the event crawler to do it’s job

What happened instead?

Screen Shot 2022-02-22 at 11 43 24

The above will spin forever… Looking at the console I can see

Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'addInitialCheckpoints')
    at EventIndexPanel.tsx:129:15
Screen Shot 2022-02-22 at 11 44 04

Operating system

macOS

Application version

No response

How did you install the app?

No response

Homeserver

No response

Will you send logs?

No

Issue Analytics

  • State:open
  • Created 2 years ago
  • Comments:11 (11 by maintainers)

github_iconTop GitHub Comments

2reactions
lampholdercommented, May 23, 2022

Seems related - I just got this:

image

It feels frustrating to rely on me to click the “unbreak my software” button when Element could have elected to rebuild the index upon discovering that it is (presumably irretrievably) corrupted?

1reaction
lampholdercommented, May 23, 2022

Also, the only way to fix this is hidden in an “advanced” dropdown.

Read more comments on GitHub >

github_iconTop Results From Across the Web

"Message search initialisation failed, check your settings for ...
I see a message saying "Message search initialisation failed, ... EventIndex: Error initializing the event index {"message":"Error opening ...
Read more >
Fix Failed Database Content Index for Exchange Server 2013
The content index is stored in a folder named for the GUID of the database. Delete the folder. Repeat the same steps to...
Read more >
Error Message on indexer console - Splunk Community
message = Failed to send message to external search command, see search.log. severity = error. [CLUSTER] name = Event-Clustering Search ...
Read more >
Event ID: 41315 A search failed with error "The search did not ...
Event ID: 41315. Task Category: Index Query Server Level: Warning Computer: EVSERVER01.ev.local. Description: A search failed with error ...
Read more >
Windows Search Indexer stopped working and was closed
If the Search Indexing option or Indexer is not working or running ... error message – Windows could not start the Windows Search...
Read more >

github_iconTop Related Medium Post

No results found

github_iconTop Related StackOverflow Question

No results found

github_iconTroubleshoot Live Code

Lightrun enables developers to add logs, metrics and snapshots to live code - no restarts or redeploys required.
Start Free

github_iconTop Related Reddit Thread

No results found

github_iconTop Related Hackernoon Post

No results found

github_iconTop Related Tweet

No results found

github_iconTop Related Dev.to Post

No results found

github_iconTop Related Hashnode Post

No results found