meilisearch: Error when deleting index: DirectoryNotEmpty

Description When deleting an index using $client->deleteIndex('Posts') I see in the MeiliSearch output the error below. However, the index does seem to be deleted in the sense that $client->getAllIndexes() no longer shows the one I just tried to delete.

ERROR meilisearch_lib::index_controller::index_resolver] Error while deleting index: Internal(Os { code: 39, kind: DirectoryNotEmpty, message: "Directory not empty" })

Expected behavior There should not be an error

Current behavior There’s a DirectoryNotEmpty error

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Environment (please complete the following information):

OS: Ubuntu running in a Virtualbox (Laravel Homestead) on MacOS
MeiliSearch version: 0.23.1
meilisearch-php version: ^0.19.2

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Comments: 17 (10 by maintainers)

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Hello @stefkes thanks for opening this issue. It seems related to MeiliSearch and not to meilisearch-php library, so I move the issue into the right repo 😃 I will move it back if it appears it’s finally a meilisearch-php issue

Currently checking with the devs of the core team to know better where this issue could come from

curquiza on Oct 20, 2021

We are getting same error on v0.30.0rc2 . Running Meilisearch instance on Kubernetes with persistent volume.

simple request like

curl -X DELETE '<meilisearch>/indexes/<index>'

will return

{"taskUid":33,"indexUid":"v2_staging","status":"enqueued","type":"indexDeletion","enqueuedAt":"2022-11-21T17:46:40.863515208Z"}%

logs

[2022-11-21T17:59:19Z INFO  actix_web::middleware::logger] 10.244.0.226 "DELETE /indexes/v2_staging HTTP/1.1" 202 127 "-" "curl/7.84.0" 0.001331

then when I check Tasks:

[
 {
      "uid": 33,
      "indexUid": "<index>",
      "status": "failed",
      "type": "indexDeletion",
      "details": {
        "deletedDocuments": 0
      },
      "error": {
        "message": "An internal error has occurred. `Directory not empty (os error 39)`.",
        "code": "internal",
        "type": "internal",
        "link": "https://docs.meilisearch.com/errors#internal"
      },
      "duration": "PT0.002740018S",
      "enqueuedAt": "2022-11-21T17:46:40.863515208Z",
      "startedAt": "2022-11-21T17:46:40.865735138Z",
      "finishedAt": "2022-11-21T17:46:40.868475156Z"
    }
...
]

The thing is, that index was deleted as a result.

So the information that it is not possible to delete the index is wrong

bultas on Nov 21, 2022

Hi,

I have the same issue here, Meilisearch is on Clever-cloud, index of ~4M entries. v0.24

ERROR meilisearch_lib::index_controller::index_resolver] Error while deleting index: Internal(Os { code: 39, kind: DirectoryNotEmpty, message: "Directory not empty" })

Edit : The index was deleted anyway, but the machine crashed and restarted.

alexchuin on Dec 14, 2021