hat's a strainge error to get. I can't explain why LinuxFileSystem can't load LinuxNativeDispatcher, but you can probably bypass hte entire situation by explicitly configuring ConcurrentMergeScheduler with defaults so that it doesn't try determine wether you are using an SSD or "spinning" disk...
http://lucene.apache.org/core/5_5_0/core/org/apache/lucene/index/ConcurrentMergeScheduler.html https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/IndexConfig+in+SolrConfig#IndexConfiginSolrConfig-MergingIndexSegments Something like this in your indexConfig settings... <mergeScheduler class="org.apache.lucene.index.ConcurrentMergeScheduler"> <int name="maxMergeCount">42</int> <int name="maxThreadCount">7</int> </mergeScheduler> ...will force those specific settings, instead of trying to guess defaults. I haven't tested this, but in theory you can also use something like to indicate definitively that you are using a spinning disk (or not) but let it pick the appropriate default values for the merge count & threads accordingly ... <mergeScheduler class="org.apache.lucene.index.ConcurrentMergeScheduler"> <bool name="defaultMaxMergesAndThreads">true</bool> </mergeScheduler> : Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 22:56:54 +0000 : From: David Moles <david.mo...@ucop.edu> : Reply-To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org : To: "solr-user@lucene.apache.org" <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> : Subject: Solr update fails with “Could not initialize class : sun.nio.fs.LinuxNativeDispatcher” : : Hi folks, : : New Solr user here, attempting to apply the following Solr update command via curl : : curl 'my-solr-server:8983/solr/my-core/update?commit=true' \ : -H 'Content-type:application/json' -d \ : '[{"my_id_field":"some-id-value","my_other_field":{"set":"new-field-value"}}]' : : I'm getting an error response with a stack trace that reduces to: : : Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class sun.nio.fs.LinuxNativeDispatcher : at sun.nio.fs.LinuxFileSystem.getMountEntries(LinuxFileSystem.java:81) : at sun.nio.fs.LinuxFileStore.findMountEntry(LinuxFileStore.java:86) : at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileStore.<init>(UnixFileStore.java:65) : at sun.nio.fs.LinuxFileStore.<init>(LinuxFileStore.java:44) : at sun.nio.fs.LinuxFileSystemProvider.getFileStore(LinuxFileSystemProvider.java:51) : at sun.nio.fs.LinuxFileSystemProvider.getFileStore(LinuxFileSystemProvider.java:39) : at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.getFileStore(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:368) : at java.nio.file.Files.getFileStore(Files.java:1461) : at org.apache.lucene.util.IOUtils.getFileStore(IOUtils.java:528) : at org.apache.lucene.util.IOUtils.spinsLinux(IOUtils.java:483) : at org.apache.lucene.util.IOUtils.spins(IOUtils.java:472) : at org.apache.lucene.util.IOUtils.spins(IOUtils.java:447) : at org.apache.lucene.index.ConcurrentMergeScheduler.initDynamicDefaults(ConcurrentMergeScheduler.java:371) : at org.apache.lucene.index.ConcurrentMergeScheduler.merge(ConcurrentMergeScheduler.java:457) : at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.maybeMerge(IndexWriter.java:1817) : at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.prepareCommitInternal(IndexWriter.java:2761) : at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.commitInternal(IndexWriter.java:2866) : at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.commit(IndexWriter.java:2833) : at org.apache.solr.update.DirectUpdateHandler2.commit(DirectUpdateHandler2.java:586) : at org.apache.solr.update.processor.RunUpdateProcessor.processCommit(RunUpdateProcessorFactory.java:95) : at org.apache.solr.update.processor.UpdateRequestProcessor.processCommit(UpdateRequestProcessor.java:64) : at org.apache.solr.update.processor.DistributedUpdateProcessor.doLocalCommit(DistributedUpdateProcessor.java:1635) : at org.apache.solr.update.processor.DistributedUpdateProcessor.processCommit(DistributedUpdateProcessor.java:1612) : at org.apache.solr.update.processor.LogUpdateProcessor.processCommit(LogUpdateProcessorFactory.java:161) : at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerUtils.handleCommit(RequestHandlerUtils.java:69) : at org.apache.solr.handler.ContentStreamHandlerBase.handleRequestBody(ContentStreamHandlerBase.java:78) : at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:143) : at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:2064) : at org.apache.solr.servlet.HttpSolrCall.execute(HttpSolrCall.java:654) : at org.apache.solr.servlet.HttpSolrCall.call(HttpSolrCall.java:450) : ... 22 more : : It looks like sun.nio.fs can't find its own classes, which seems odd. Solr is running with OpenJDK 1.8.0_77 on Amazon Linux AMI release 2016.03. : : Does anyone know what might be going on here? Is it an OpenJDK / Amazon Linux problem? : : -- : David Moles : UC Curation Center : California Digital Library : : : -Hoss http://www.lucidworks.com/