Re-index in Jira fails due to IndexFormatTooOldException
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Problem
After performing an upgrade to JIRA 8 or newer, the re-index fails and the following appears in the atlassian-jira.log
JiraTaskExectionThread-2 ERROR admin 918x369x1 w6fhfe 127.0.0.1 /secure/admin/jira/IndexReIndex!reindex.jspa [c.a.j.util.index.CompositeIndexLifecycleManager] Reindex All FAILED.
Indexer: SharedEntityIndexManager:
paths: [] com.atlassian.jira.util.RuntimeIOException: org.apache.lucene.index.IndexFormatTooOldException: Format version is not supported
(resource BufferedChecksumIndexInput(MMapIndexInput(path="/opt/data/atlassian/application-data/jira/caches/indexesV1/entities/searchrequest/segments_9t"))): -11
(needs to be between 1071082519 and 1071082519). This version of Lucene only supports indexes created with release 6.0 and later.
at com.atlassian.jira.index.DefaultIndexEngine.clean(DefaultIndexEngine.java:132)
at com.atlassian.jira.index.DefaultManager.deleteIndexDirectory(DefaultManager.java:40)Cause
In JIRA 8 and newer, the indexing mechanism (Lucene) was upgraded (as detailed in our release notes), aiming for improvements in application performance. This causes the indexes to be rebuilt from the scratch.
Resolution
Delete the current indexes and rebuild everything using a lock JIRA and reindex operation by following the procedure below:
- Shutdown JIRA
- Delete all the contents from the following folder
- In Jira 8: $JIRA_HOME\caches\indexesV1
In Jira 9: $JIRA_HOME\caches\indexesV2
- Restart JIRA
- Perform a full re-index