What do you think Solr should do in this case? If the process doesn't have permission to the dir, it can't write to it. You need to set the permissions, or the authority of the process that Solr is running as appropriately.
Best, Erick On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Said Chavkin <schav...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello. > > When in solr/home directory exists directory to which solr do not have > rights, then solr failed to start with exception: > > 2108 [main] INFO org.apache.solr.core.CoresLocator - Looking for core > definitions underneath /var/lib/solr > 2109 [main] ERROR org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter - Could > not start Solr. Check solr/home property and the logs > 2138 [main] ERROR org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore - > null:java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.solr.core.CorePropertiesLocator.discoverUnder(CorePropertiesLocator.java:121) > at > org.apache.solr.core.CorePropertiesLocator.discoverUnder(CorePropertiesLocator.java:130) > at > org.apache.solr.core.CorePropertiesLocator.discover(CorePropertiesLocator.java:113) > at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer.load(CoreContainer.java:226) > at > org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.createCoreContainer(SolrDispatchFilter.java:177) > at > org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.init(SolrDispatchFilter.java:127) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:295) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:422) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:115) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:3838) > at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4488) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791) > at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771) > at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:526) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:637) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:563) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:498) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1277) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:321) > at > org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119) > at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053) > at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:722) > at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045) > at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443) > at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516) > at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:593) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414) > > 2138 [main] INFO org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter - > SolrDispatchFilter.init() done > > For example: > > solr/home located on /var/lib/solr. > > /var/lib/solr is another file system, it has lost+found directory, and > only root can read from this directory. > As result solr can't to star. > It is because discovering directory to which tomcat do not have rights. > > Yours faithfully.
