Thread:Extension talk:Lucene-search/Periodic fatal errors while rebuilding index - "no segments* file"... not solved yet?

I've happened to come across an error while rebuilding my index (it is set as a cronjob every 20 minutes in a rather small wiki), which I found to be recurring since almost 2 years ago: Periodic fatal errors while rebuilding index - "no segments* file".

Apparently, the rebuilding process created the /indexes/search/wiki.links as a folder instead of a symlink, which is why it is supposed to fail.

Has anybody found a solution that does not imply stopping the lsearchd daemon or deleting the index directory?