Removing a CQ lucene index

Sometimes bad things happen in CQ and the only way to correct the problem is to remove the lucene index.

• Go to ./cq-quickstart/repository
• Search for directories named index
• Move, rename, or delete, as appropriate
• restart your cq instance

bad path element "": no such file or directory

According to Google this is usually a problem that occurs when a class path is defined in a manifest file that no longer exists.

In my case, I got this compiling with maven, it occurred when I had changed a reference to a method from an instance call to a static call and failed to commit the associated change to the repository.