diff --git a/content/post/2017-12.md b/content/post/2017-12.md
index a7a1ec897..10eb5d060 100644
--- a/content/post/2017-12.md
+++ b/content/post/2017-12.md
@@ -410,3 +410,10 @@ $ schedtool -D -e ionice -c2 -n7 nice -n19 dspace index-discovery
 - I notice that this number will be set to 10 by default in DSpace 6.1 and 7.0: https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-3564
 - So I'm going to reduce ours from 20 to 10 and start trying to figure out how the hell to supply a database pool using Tomcat JNDI
 - I re-deployed the `5_x-prod` branch on CGSpace, applied all system updates, and restarted the server
+- Looking through the dspace.log I see this error:
+
+```
+2017-12-19 08:17:15,740 ERROR org.dspace.statistics.SolrLogger @ Error CREATEing SolrCore 'statistics-2010': Unable to create core [statistics-2010] Caused by: Lock obtain timed out: NativeFSLock@/home/cgspace.cgiar.org/solr/statistics-2010/data/index/write.lock
+```
+
+- I don't have time now to look into this but the Solr sharding has long been an issue!
diff --git a/public/2017-12/index.html b/public/2017-12/index.html
index 2a3f24117..b319daa4d 100644
--- a/public/2017-12/index.html
+++ b/public/2017-12/index.html
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ The list of connections to XMLUI and REST API for today:
 
 <meta property="article:published_time" content="2017-12-01T13:53:54&#43;03:00"/>
 
-<meta property="article:modified_time" content="2017-12-18T22:07:13&#43;02:00"/>
+<meta property="article:modified_time" content="2017-12-19T10:14:51&#43;02:00"/>
 
 
 
@@ -56,9 +56,9 @@ The list of connections to XMLUI and REST API for today:
   "@type": "BlogPosting",
   "headline": "December, 2017",
   "url": "https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2017-12/",
-  "wordCount": "2374",
+  "wordCount": "2421",
   "datePublished": "2017-12-01T13:53:54&#43;03:00",
-  "dateModified": "2017-12-18T22:07:13&#43;02:00",
+  "dateModified": "2017-12-19T10:14:51&#43;02:00",
   "author": {
     "@type": "Person",
     "name": "Alan Orth"
@@ -577,6 +577,14 @@ $ schedtool -D -e ionice -c2 -n7 nice -n19 dspace index-discovery
 <li>I notice that this number will be set to 10 by default in DSpace 6.1 and 7.0: <a href="https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-3564">https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-3564</a></li>
 <li>So I&rsquo;m going to reduce ours from 20 to 10 and start trying to figure out how the hell to supply a database pool using Tomcat JNDI</li>
 <li>I re-deployed the <code>5_x-prod</code> branch on CGSpace, applied all system updates, and restarted the server</li>
+<li>Looking through the dspace.log I see this error:</li>
+</ul>
+
+<pre><code>2017-12-19 08:17:15,740 ERROR org.dspace.statistics.SolrLogger @ Error CREATEing SolrCore 'statistics-2010': Unable to create core [statistics-2010] Caused by: Lock obtain timed out: NativeFSLock@/home/cgspace.cgiar.org/solr/statistics-2010/data/index/write.lock
+</code></pre>
+
+<ul>
+<li>I don&rsquo;t have time now to look into this but the Solr sharding has long been an issue!</li>
 </ul>
 
   
diff --git a/public/sitemap.xml b/public/sitemap.xml
index 0c33e2b33..9500729d1 100644
--- a/public/sitemap.xml
+++ b/public/sitemap.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   
   <url>
     <loc>https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2017-12/</loc>
-    <lastmod>2017-12-18T22:07:13+02:00</lastmod>
+    <lastmod>2017-12-19T10:14:51+02:00</lastmod>
   </url>
   
   <url>
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
   
   <url>
     <loc>https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/</loc>
-    <lastmod>2017-12-18T22:07:13+02:00</lastmod>
+    <lastmod>2017-12-19T10:14:51+02:00</lastmod>
     <priority>0</priority>
   </url>
   
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
   
   <url>
     <loc>https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/tags/notes/</loc>
-    <lastmod>2017-12-18T22:07:13+02:00</lastmod>
+    <lastmod>2017-12-19T10:14:51+02:00</lastmod>
     <priority>0</priority>
   </url>
   
@@ -162,13 +162,13 @@
   
   <url>
     <loc>https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/post/</loc>
-    <lastmod>2017-12-18T22:07:13+02:00</lastmod>
+    <lastmod>2017-12-19T10:14:51+02:00</lastmod>
     <priority>0</priority>
   </url>
   
   <url>
     <loc>https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/tags/</loc>
-    <lastmod>2017-12-18T22:07:13+02:00</lastmod>
+    <lastmod>2017-12-19T10:14:51+02:00</lastmod>
     <priority>0</priority>
   </url>