Did you by any chance set up multicore? Try passing in the path to the Solr home directory as -Dsolr.solr.home=/path/to/solr/home while you start Solr.
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Jon Drukman <jdruk...@gmail.com> wrote: > What does this error mean? > > SEVERE: Could not start SOLR. Check solr/home property > > I've had this solr installation working before, but I haven't looked at it > in a few months. I checked it today and the web side is returning a 500 > error, the log file shows this when starting up: > > > SEVERE: Could not start SOLR. Check solr/home property > java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.IOException: read past EOF > at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.getSearcher(SolrCore.java:1068) > at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.<init>(SolrCore.java:579) > at > org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer$Initializer.initialize(CoreContainer.java:137) > at > org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.init(SolrDispatchFilter.java:83) > at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.FilterHolder.doStart(FilterHolder.java:99) > at > org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:40) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.initialize(ServletHandler.java:594) > at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Context.startContext(Context.java:139) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:1218) > > For the record, I've never explictly set "solr/home" ever. It always "just > worked". > > -jsd- > > -- - Siddhant
