By any chance are you trying to start Solr as a different user when this happens? I'm wondering if there's a permissions issue here....
Wild guess. On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:37 AM, Graeme Pietersz <gra...@pietersz.net> wrote: > I get this error when starting Solr using the script in bin/solr > > tail cannot open `[path]/logs/solr.log’ for reading: No such file or directory > > It does not happen every time, but it does happen a lot. It sometimes clears > up after a while. > > I have tried creating an empty file, but solr then just says: > > Backing up [path]/logs/solr.log > > And repeats the same error. > > I am guessing the problem is that it cannot get the error from the log file > because the log file has not been created yet, but then how do I debug this? > > Running Solr 4.10.2 on Debian 7 using Jetty with the default IcedTea 2.5.3 > java version 1.7.0_65 > > Thanks for any help or pointers.
