Fixing YaCy?
A couple of weeks back I decided to upgrade the YaCy installs running on Leandra to the latest supported versions, because they'd been lagging behind for a while. Due to the fact that they're enterprisey Java web applications and I can't readily get hold of any live chickens to sacrifice, I'd been putting it off as much as possible.
As it turned out, the lack of sacrificial barnyard fowl wound up being a crucial factor in how things transpired.
The first install that I upgraded was an install from source code and was indexing my personal library. It got re-indexed …