I use the same user every time and the /logs directory and everything in it is owned by that user. I get the same problem occasionally developing on my Ubuntu 14.10 laptop as well, and all the files in the solr directory are owned by me on that machine (and I run Solr as me there as well).
Config issue? Is there anything that could cause this? -- Graeme Pietersz gra...@pietersz.net +94 774 102149 On Tuesday 13 Jan 2015 07:42:43 Erick Erickson wrote: > 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.
