From 504938ec03d2d7d734753f9f3df430a0290abcdf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael McCandless <mikemccand@apache.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 00:34:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] remove bad assert

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/dev/trunk@1407328 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 .../org/apache/lucene/search/TestShardSearching.java     | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lucene/core/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/TestShardSearching.java b/lucene/core/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/TestShardSearching.java
index ac2588f7b3f..a657363dd04 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/TestShardSearching.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/TestShardSearching.java
@@ -244,8 +244,13 @@ public class TestShardSearching extends ShardSearchingTestBase {
               System.out.println("  searcher expired during search: " + see);
               see.printStackTrace(System.out);
             }
-            assert prevSearchState != null;
-            priorSearches.remove(prevSearchState);
+            // We can't do this in general: on a very slow
+            // computer it's possible the local searcher
+            // expires before we can finish our search:
+            // assert prevSearchState != null;
+            if (prevSearchState != null) {
+              priorSearches.remove(prevSearchState);
+            }
           }
         }
       } finally {