diff --git a/source/net/yacy/cora/federate/solr/connector/EmbeddedSolrConnector.java b/source/net/yacy/cora/federate/solr/connector/EmbeddedSolrConnector.java
index db3f95434..8fda40feb 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/cora/federate/solr/connector/EmbeddedSolrConnector.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/cora/federate/solr/connector/EmbeddedSolrConnector.java
@@ -417,7 +417,9 @@ public class EmbeddedSolrConnector extends SolrServerConnector implements SolrCo
             if (doc == null) return null;
             return AbstractSolrConnector.getMetadata(doc);
             //}
-        } catch (Throwable e) {} finally {
+        } catch (Throwable e) {
+            ConcurrentLog.logException(e);
+        } finally {
             if (docListSearcher != null) docListSearcher.close();
         }
         return null;
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/search/index/ErrorCache.java b/source/net/yacy/search/index/ErrorCache.java
index b8828b918..9b19217c4 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/search/index/ErrorCache.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/search/index/ErrorCache.java
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ public class ErrorCache {
                 url, profile == null ? null : profile.collections(),
                 failCategory.name() + " " + reason, failCategory.failType,
                 httpcode, crawldepth);
-        if (this.fulltext.getDefaultConnector() != null && failCategory.store && !exists(url.hash())) {
+        if (this.fulltext.getDefaultConnector() != null && failCategory.store) {
             // send the error to solr
             try {
                 // do not overwrite error reports with error reports
@@ -189,12 +189,10 @@ public class ErrorCache {
     public boolean exists(final byte[] urlHash) {
         String urlHashString = ASCII.String(urlHash);
         try {
-            // first try to check if the document exists at all.
-            long loaddate = this.fulltext.getLoadTime(urlHashString);
-            if (loaddate < 0) return false;
-            // then load the fail reason, if exists
+            // load the fail reason, if exists
             final SolrDocument doc = this.fulltext.getDefaultConnector().getDocumentById(urlHashString, CollectionSchema.failreason_s.getSolrFieldName());
             if (doc == null) return false;
+
             // check if the document contains a value in the field CollectionSchema.failreason_s
             Object failreason = doc.getFieldValue(CollectionSchema.failreason_s.getSolrFieldName());
             return failreason != null && failreason.toString().length() > 0;