Homebrew - can't install Sphinx

Question

I'm trying to get Sphinx (and thinking Sphinx working). It have worked before - but it stopped working tonight after my colleague installed Node, php and some other stuff.

It first complained about a locked pid file:

FATAL: failed to lock pid file

After this I tried to reinstall Sphinx:

brew uninstall sphinx

And:

brew install sphinx. 

I already have mysql so I skipped --mysql. This results in the following:

This is not sphinx - the Python Documentation Generator.
To install sphinx-python: use pip or easy_install,

Sphinx has been compiled with libstemmer support.

Sphinx depends on either MySQL or PostreSQL as a datasource.

You can install these with Homebrew with:
  brew install mysql
    For MySQL server.

  brew install mysql-connector-c
    For MySQL client libraries only.

  brew install postgresql
    For PostgreSQL server.

We don't install these for you when you install this formula, as
we don't know which datasource you intend to use.

When running searchd I get this:

FATAL: no readable config file (looked in   /usr/local/Cellar/sphinx/2.2.6/etc/sphinx.conf, ./sphinx.conf).

And when trying to start thinking-sphinx for my rails app I get:

Failed to start searchd. Check the log files for more information.

And the log file still says:

FATAL: failed to lock pid file

I'm not sure what is causing this, or how I can fix it. Thought that reinstalling Sphinx would be enough - but I'm stuck at square one.

Any ideas on how I can get it to work again?

Answer 1

How about uninstalling sphinx and giving this a go:

brew install sphinx --pgsql --mysql