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Can rebuild locator in Pro but not in arcpy

AaronManuel2 — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 19:32:52 GMT

Hey all, running into an issue where I can rebuild a locator in Pro running the gp tool Rebuild Address Locator, but if I try to rebuild it in a script using arcpy, it doesn't work. I get 'Error 000005: Could not open the address locator' .

The rest of the code in my script publishing the locator and sharing it works fine, I just cant rebuild it. The execution block for this part of the script is about as simple as it can be as arcpy.geocoding.RebuildAddressLocator only has one argument, the locator path.

try: arcpy.geocoding.RebuildAddressLocator(locator_path) print("The geocoder was rebuilt successfully") except arcpy.ExecuteError: print("Error rebuilding") print(arcpy.GetMessages(2))

I found this post - https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/error-000005-quot-could-not-open-address-locator/td-p/1285959

But I am already running this script on the same server where we do a lot of our Pro work, and always have Pro open and signed into both AGOL and our Portal. Doesn't seem to be a pathing or environment issue as publishing works fine.

Is this a bug or am I missing something? Thanks,

Re: Can rebuild locator in Pro but not in arcpy

HaydenWelch — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 05:19:39 GMT

You're doing everything exactly like for the docs say, I don't think it's anything with how your wrote your business logic, but probably something with permissions. It seems like that function just raises a generic error when it fail to authenticate.

Re: Can rebuild locator in Pro but not in arcpy

AaronManuel2 — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 13:38:32 GMT

Thanks for looking. I'm not sure what else to try, there are no other variables to test with. I've re-created it several times manually but that hasn't fixed the issue. And in the script I am signing into both arcgis online and portal in order to publish the service definition, and share the locator publicly. So I'm pretty stumped!

Re: Can rebuild locator in Pro but not in arcpy

Tomasz_Tarchalski — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 10:22:40 GMT

check if you are using the correct path of python executable... python 3 not python 2.

Re: Can rebuild locator in Pro but not in arcpy

CortWilson — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 00:25:08 GMT

@AaronManuel2 Did you ever sort this out? We are completely stumped by the same issue....

Re: Can rebuild locator in Pro but not in arcpy

AaronManuel2 — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 13:26:50 GMT

Hello, I did find a workaround. I changed my script to rebuild from local reference data, in a file geodatabase, instead of referencing data from our db or server and for some reason it works. So now I have a job on our server machine that exports our address data into this file gdb before the rebuild script runs so its using the latest data.

This has to be a bug or incompatibility issue of some kind, though our backend configuration is not out of the ordinary. I haven't tested it recently to see if it will work pointed to server/db now, but my script is still working with the local data so I'm just leaving it at that. Hope this helps.

Re: Can rebuild locator in Pro but not in arcpy

CortWilson — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:30:17 GMT

Oh, interesting... Yes, that is helpful. It kind of sounds like there is some sort of permission issue. Either ArcGIS Pro or database connection user. At this point, I'm just going to open a case and dive into it with ESRI.

Thanks!

Re: Can rebuild locator in Pro but not in arcpy

Matt-Goodman — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:49:02 GMT

I think I'm bumping into the same issue. IDK, might be version issues between locators and db?

The reference data is in an enterprise SDE db.
I'm signed-in to our enterprise licensing through Portal.

Re: Can rebuild locator in Pro but not in arcpy

CortWilson — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:59:34 GMT

Support ended up logging a BUG for the issue I was facing. It's in their product plan now, so it will be addressed at some point.

Re: Can rebuild locator in Pro but not in arcpy

AaronManuel2 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:41:08 GMT

Huh, thanks Cort. Seems like their Bug report is saying the issue is trying to rebuild the locator if its also open in a pro project? I don't recall that specifically being my issue but maybe it was.