DRG-11225: Third-party filter timed out

Question

Hello,
I am facing the following problem when indexing a column:
DRG-11207: user filter command exited with status 2
DRG-11225: Third-party filter timed out.
I am using Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS and Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0
I have a column named URL in a table named DOCUMENTO_CONSULTA
This column contains file URLs (2 rows involved in the test)
I am confident that the paths that appear in the two rows of the URL column are correct (because if I change
them to something different another error appear that says, as expected, that files could not be found). I am sure
that access to the files is granted. FILE_ACCESS_ROLE is set to CTXAPP and role is granted to the user. File
and path permission are set to 777.
The two rows contains paths to simple DOC and PDF content, with just one paragraph each.
I am using the following configuration:
ctx_ddl.create_preference ('ajn_doc_cons_datastore', 'URL_DATASTORE');
ctx_ddl.set_attribute ('ajn_doc_cons_datastore', 'urlsize', 1024);
ctx_ddl.create_preference ('ajn_doc_cons_filter', 'AUTO_FILTER');
ctx_ddl.set_attribute ('ajn_doc_cons_filter', 'timeout', 0);
ctx_ddl.create_preference ('ajn_spanish_lexer', 'BASIC_LEXER');
ctx_ddl.set_attribute ('ajn_spanish_lexer', 'base_letter', 'YES');
ctx_ddl.set_attribute ('ajn_spanish_lexer', 'index_themes', 'NO');
ctx_ddl.set_attribute ('ajn_spanish_lexer', 'index_stems', 7);
ctx_ddl.set_attribute ('ajn_spanish_lexer', 'index_text', 'YES');
ctx_ddl.create_preference ('ajn_spanish_wordlist', 'BASIC_WORDLIST');
ctx_ddl.set_attribute ('ajn_spanish_wordlist', 'stemmer', 'SPANISH');
ctx_ddl.set_attribute ('ajn_spanish_wordlist', 'fuzzy_match', 'SPANISH');
The sentence to create the index is:
create index ajn_doc_cons_idx on documento_consulta(URL)
indextype is ctxsys.context
parameters ('LEXER ajn_spanish_lexer DATASTORE ajn_doc_cons_datastore FILTER ajn_doc_cons_filter WORDLIST ajn_spanish_wordlist ')
I've tried changing URL_DATASTORE to FILE_DATASTORE (with no attributes) but the result is the same
Here's the configuration I've set in /etv/environment:
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/mnt/oracle/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/bin:/mnt/oracle/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/ctx/bin"
TMPDIR=/tmp
ORACLE_HOSTNAME=--------- (my host name)
ORACLE_BASE=/mnt/oracle/app/oracle
ORACLE_HOME=/mnt/oracle/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1
ORACLE_SID=orcl
ORACLE_TERM=xterm
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/oracle/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/ctx/lib:/mnt/oracle/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/lib
If I try to use ctxhx from the console everything works OK and twoHTML files corresponding to the two rows are generated with no errors at all.
I haven't found any relevant information in forums and docs. I don't have any more ideas, so any answer would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Edited by: 988718 on 18-feb-2013 7:16

Answer 1

Ubuntu is not a supported platform for Oracle, so it's hard to answer this.
However, if you want to try to debug it, replace the "ctxhx" executable with a shell script which dumps its arguments and the current environment to a file.
You can then use that output to create a shell with the same environment, and see if command line ctxhx still works. If not, you'll have to figure out what the differences are between the two environments.