StackTrace
INFO: created /debug/dump: solr.DumpRequestHandler
Jan 8, 2011 10:30:22 AM org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter init
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)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:500)
at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:448)
at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:40)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.doStart(HandlerCollection.java:147)
Cause
I copied the SOLR directory to another machine and when I fired up SOLR received this error.
Solution:
The error message was misleading as even though I started the server with -Dsolr.solr.home option the error was still the same.
The index was somehow corrupted and when I deleted the $SOLR_HOME/solr/data/index directory and restarted SOLR it worked fine. Obviously after that the data had to be reindexed
