Hi Jon, Not sure who spits out that error message, but you can always use -Dsolr.solr.home=/path/to/solr/home as the JVM param (in your app server startup script, most likely). Otis ---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/
----- Original Message ---- > From: Jon Drukman <jdruk...@gmail.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Mon, April 26, 2010 4:04:39 PM > Subject: SEVERE: Could not start SOLR. Check solr/home property > > 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-
