My setup is two solr nodes running on separate Azure Ubuntu 18.04 LTS vms using an external zookeeper assembly. I installed Solr 6.6.6 using the install file and then followed the steps for enabling ssl. I am able to start solr, add collections and the like using bin/solr script.
Example: /opt/solr$ sudo bin/solr start -cloud -s cloud/test2 -force However, if I restart the machine or attempt to start solr using the installed service, it naturally goes back to the default SOLR_HOME in the /etc/default/solr.in.sh script: "/var/solr/data" I've tried updating SOLR_HOME to "/opt/solr/cloud/test2" but then when I start the service I see the following error on the Admin Dashboard: SolrCore Initialization Failures mycollection_shard1_replica1: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException:org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: /opt/solr-6.6.6/cloud/test2/mycollection_shard1_replica1/data/index/write.lock Please check your logs for more information [cid:image001.png@01D68C18.8565BFB0] I'm including what I believe to be the pertinent information from the logs below: I suspect this is a permission issue because the solr user created by the install script isn't allowed access to /opt/solr but I'm new to Linux and haven't completely wrapped my head around the way permissions work with it. Am I correct in guessing the cause of the error and, if so, how do I correct this so that the service can be used to run my instances? java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Unable to create core [mycollection_shard1_replica1] at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.report(FutureTask.java:122) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:192) at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer.lambda$load$6(CoreContainer.java:594) at com.codahale.metrics.InstrumentedExecutorService$InstrumentedRunnable.run(InstrumentedExecutorService.java:176) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) at org.apache.solr.common.util.ExecutorUtil$MDCAwareThreadPoolExecutor.lambda$execute$0(ExecutorUtil.java:229) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) Caused by: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Unable to create core [mycollection_shard1_replica1] at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer.createFromDescriptor(CoreContainer.java:966) at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer.lambda$load$5(CoreContainer.java:565) at com.codahale.metrics.InstrumentedExecutorService$InstrumentedCallable.call(InstrumentedExecutorService.java:197) ... 5 more Caused by: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: /opt/solr-6.6.6/cloud/test2/mycollection_shard1_replica1/data/index/write.lock at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.<init>(SolrCore.java:977) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.<init>(SolrCore.java:830) at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer.createFromDescriptor(CoreContainer.java:950) ... 7 more Caused by: java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /opt/solr-6.6.6/cloud/test2/mycollection_shard1_replica1/data/index/write.lock at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:84) at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102) at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:107) at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newFileChannel(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:177) at java.nio.channels.FileChannel.open(FileChannel.java:287) at java.nio.channels.FileChannel.open(FileChannel.java:335) at org.apache.lucene.store.NativeFSLockFactory.obtainFSLock(NativeFSLockFactory.java:113) at org.apache.lucene.store.FSLockFactory.obtainLock(FSLockFactory.java:41) at org.apache.lucene.store.BaseDirectory.obtainLock(BaseDirectory.java:45) at org.apache.lucene.store.FilterDirectory.obtainLock(FilterDirectory.java:104) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.isLocked(IndexWriter.java:4776) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.initIndex(SolrCore.java:709) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.<init>(SolrCore.java:923) Thanks for the help, Victor