Sorry to provide a link rather than reply to an email from the mailing
list, but I joined late, and can't seem to figure out a sane way to reply
to the original message...
At any rate, I was helping to look into this issue with Solr Replacation
blocking a clean tomcat shutdown, see the original
I was helping to look into this with Nick I think we may have figured out
the core of the problem...
The problem is easily reproducible by starting replication on the slave and
then sending a shutdown command to tomcat (e.g. catalina.sh stop).
With a debugger attached, it looks like the