LockObtainFailedException: Lock obtain timed out: SimpleFSLock@ [Issue/Explain]

Let’s me start from a scenario of a Java (Hibernate, Spring App)/tomcat application that would give you as myself, the error as stated in the subject above.

To reproduce

In some cases, as you do as following steps:

• Build with clean install
• Start Tomcat as normal
• Stop Tomcat
• And Start Tomcat again
• You got an error with LockObtainFailedException

The error message

org.apache.lucene.store.LockObtainFailedException: Lock obtain timed out: SimpleFSLock@C:\Users\youruser\YourProject-1.0-SNAPSHOT\index\com.yourproject.model.MyModel\write.lock

 

Work Around Solution

Here is my first solution, I noticed each time I got the error

• Each before start any tomcat, you need to run: mvn clean install
• Then can start tomcat as normal

 

Exactly Cause & Temporary Solution

What’s the exactly issue I really found out. It is because of your search index in configuration of file: hibernate.properties

app.search.index.basedir=\${user.home}/${project.build.finalName}/index
hibernate.search.default.directory_provider=filesystem
hibernate.search.default.locking_strategy=simple
hibernate.search.default.exclusive_index_use=true
hibernate.search.lucene_version=LUCENE_35
hibernate.search.analyzer=org.apache.lucene.analysis.en.EnglishAnalyzer
hibernate.search.worker.batch_size=100

According to the doc of LockFactory as in one document of RedHat, the strategy config with simple said that:

If for some reason you had to kill your application, you will need to remove this file before restarting it.

So that for my temporary solution, I consider to disable the index for awhile in my development environment and keep above setting for my production environment.

hibernate.search.default.locking_strategy=none

Real Solution

I still need more flexible solution which is better than above “Work Around Solution” & “Temporary Solution” for my development environment, nor deleting the file for each restarting the tomcat.

Please drop in comment if you have some experiences about this issue.