Greetings, Your error message is unrelated to your indexing problem. Your error message is related to Bug 8175, for which there is a patch that has not passed QA yet. First: is zebra even running? $ ps aux | grep zebra Second: Have you tried a rebuild_zebra_sliced.sh? or the script from bug 6566? Those are the ideas that come to my mind. GPML, Mark Tompsett