: SEVERE: Could not start SOLR. Check solr/home property it means something when horribly wrong when starting solr, and since this is frequently caused by either an incorrect explicit solr/home or an incorrect implicitly guessed solr home, that is mentioned in the error message as something to check.
it's part of that error message because in cases where the solr home is the problem, that may be the only meaningful error message. in your case however, you have a much more specific error message... : 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 ...so something seems to be seriously wrong with your index. farther down below this exception in your logs, there should be a more detailed execption explaining what file it had problems reading. If you could post that *full* error message it might help us track this down ... i would also suggest trying to use the CheckIndex tool to see if somehow your index got corrupted. -Hoss
