https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/3958 attempts to instead patch the old 
log4j2.xml config to the new format, which is a different solution but has the 
same effect...

Jan

> 17. des. 2025 kl. 16:10 skrev David Smiley <[email protected]>:
> 
> Looks like this ~minor-ish issue isn't going to make the Solr 10 release,
> so we might just add an upgrade note.  Such a note would read:
> 
>> If you're upgrading to Solr 10 and your configuration includes a
> log4j2.xml, be sure to update that configuration to replace "solr.log.dir"
> with "solr.logs.dir" (an added 's').  Solr will complain on startup if an
> older logging configuration is used.  This situation is likely to happen if
> you use Solr's docker image with a volume created from the Solr 9 image,
> since Solr 9 would have initialized the volume with a log4j2.xml.  Perhaps
> a future Solr version will not put log4j2.xml into the volume.
> 
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM David Smiley <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I'm already seeing some value from my Solr upgrade test automation --
>> https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/3706
>> 
>> I see that Solr 9 & 10 (at least when Dockerized) put a log4j2.xml (a
>> config file) into /var/solr/log4j2.xml.  Note the volume is /var/solr and
>> of course is intended for data.  This is a config file.  Moving on... Solr
>> 9 writes its config file with "solr.log.dir" var substitution but Solr 10
>> renamed that to "solr.logs.dir".  When Solr 10 takes over this volume, it
>> successfully starts but nonetheless its console logs are spewing error
>> messages about it not being able to resolve solr.log.dir.  I know we've got
>> some nifty EnvUtils sys prop deprecation migration but that would only work
>> if an old property is passed into the VM; it doesn't help when a config
>> file has old references, like here.
>> 
>> In this case I'd like to see if we can get that log4j2.xml file out of
>> there, using one in the r/o Docker container, not in the volume.  It
>> doesn't belong there IMO.  Proposal is to remove this:
>> 
>> https://github.com/apache/solr/blob/0fb94f7b38e7a7b735ce97ad8d19412e5fbd1f93/solr/docker/scripts/init-var-solr#L59
>> and add/edit other stuff TBD.
>> 
>> ~ David Smiley
>> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>> 

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