# Gitea 1.8.1 startup problem with issue indexer error

**URL:** <https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-1-8-1-startup-problem-with-issue-indexer-error/1174>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [May 21, 2019, 11:48am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-1-8-1-startup-problem-with-issue-indexer-error/1174 "2019-05-21T11:48:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![TheRealKerni](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/therealkerni/32/4831_2.png) [@TheRealKerni](https://forum.gitea.com/u/TheRealKerni)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 11:48am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-1-8-1-startup-problem-with-issue-indexer-error/1174/1 "2019-05-21T11:48:17Z")

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Hi,

two days ago gitea 1.8.1 stopped running (on a NanoPC T4 with Armbian Stretch) and on every restart I am getting the following error message:

`[...itea/routers/init.go:95 GlobalInit()] [E] Failed to initialize issue indexer: leveldb: manifest corrupted (field 'comparer'): missing [file=MANIFEST-000042]`

I am using the default issue indexer, and the system wasn’t used in the last 5 days and was simply running in the background. Upgrade from 1.8.0 happened on May 8th and until 2 days ago gitea worked flawlessly.

Any hints/ideas what I could try?

Thanks,  
Andreas

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**Author:** ![junpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85f322/32.png) [@junpet](https://forum.gitea.com/u/junpet)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2019, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-1-8-1-startup-problem-with-issue-indexer-error/1174/2 "2019-07-21T14:11:06Z")

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I’ve the same error with my Raspberry.

```
[...itea/routers/init.go:97 GlobalInit()] [E] Failed to initialize issue indexer: leveldb: manifest corrupted (field 'comparer'): missing [file=MANIFEST-000026]
```

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**Author:** ![thundergreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@thundergreen](https://forum.gitea.com/u/thundergreen)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 7:49pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-1-8-1-startup-problem-with-issue-indexer-error/1174/3 "2019-08-09T19:49:15Z")

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Just tried starting gitea and get same error

```auto
[...itea/routers/init.go:95 GlobalInit()] [E] Failed to initialize issue indexer: leveldb: manifest corrupted (field 'comparer'): missing [file=MANIFEST-000169]

```

Running on a orange pi… worked fine. is there anything we can do / fix?

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**Author:** ![conrad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@conrad](https://forum.gitea.com/u/conrad)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2019, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-1-8-1-startup-problem-with-issue-indexer-error/1174/4 "2019-11-25T17:02:01Z")

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I’m having the same problem, did any of you find a solution?

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**Author:** ![conrad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@conrad](https://forum.gitea.com/u/conrad)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2019, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-1-8-1-startup-problem-with-issue-indexer-error/1174/5 "2019-11-25T17:13:29Z")

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Nevermind, found the solution on github

Had to delete the indexers ( [https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/7013#issuecomment-512749675](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/7013#issuecomment-512749675) )  
Just remove files  
`rm -rf <giteatPath>/gitea/indexers/*`