Hi, I'm newbie on solr, but have same issue. More precisely, only one machine can't start solr with the message, "cannot open {solr.log} file for reading: No such file or directory." Obviously there is no file and even I created empty one, it doesn't help.
I've tried also - moving around the directory here and there, changing owner/group like root/myself/solr:solr, use install_solr_service.sh or just unzip, etc, but this machine doesn't allow to start. Not working one is solr 5.2.1/SLES 12. But I have working one with solr 5.2.1/SLES 11 and solr 5.2.1/Ubuntu 14. >From the log left in sol-8983-console.log is as follow. I'm using OpenJDK 1.7 as follow. java version "1.7.0_85" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.6.1) (suse-18.2-x86_64) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.85-b03, mixed mode) Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/eclipse/jetty/start/Main : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0 at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(Unknown Source) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) Could not find the main class: org.eclipse.jetty.start.Main. Program will exit. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Solr-fails-to-start-with-log-file-not-found-error-tp4179130p4236026.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.