Debian - Solr doesn't start and log file is getting deleted

Question

I just downloaded the newest version of Solr from http://www.eu.apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/5.3.1/solr-5.3.1.tgz

Then I unpacked it with tar zxvf solr-5.3.1.tgz

Answer 1

I don't think the log file is being deleted - it's probably just never created. Solr and Lucene 5.3 require Java 7, so if the Java6 VM is the JVM used for starting Solr - it's going to fail.

You can use ./solr start -f to get Solr to run in the foreground to catch any errors, but if the logging sub system never starts, it might not do much good.