Why I get these crazy ideas to update things when stuff is working just fine is beyond me. At any rate, I updated mysql from 5.0.x to 5.1.x and now I get the following error when attempting to run the indexer and searchd.

/usr/local/bin/indexer: /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.15: version `libmysqlclient_15' not found (required by /usr/local/bin/indexer)

Yes, I recompiled Apache and PHP after upgrading mysql. libmysqlclient.so.15 does reside in /usr/lib so I'm somewhat flumoxed as to where I went wrong. Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

I even recompiled sphinx. No joy in Mudville. :(

I know this is unrelated but are you aware of all of the issues with Mysql 5.1? :whistle: On a related note, did you make sure Sphinx will work with 5.1 and if so, did you download a version that is compatible with it?

Sphinx is the latest and greatest, which works with 5.0 and 5.1.

Well, it's sorted. Ended up removing all references to Sphinx off the server, forced a mysql update to be sure, ran easyapache, then recompiled Sphinx from source. All is good in the world again.