[SOLR-10055] Manual bin/solr start causes crash due to resolving wrong solr.in.sh

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 6.5, 7.0
• Component/s: scripts and tools
• Assignee: Jan Høydahl
• Reporter: Jan Høydahl
• Created: 31/Jan/17 00:04
• Updated: 08/Jun/19 15:33
• Resolved: 22/Feb/17 22:50

Description

The install script installs solr.in.sh in /etc/defaults/. However, if the user manually runs solr start, the script will use the solr.in.sh file from bin/ since that is first in the search path. And it will fail since /opt/solr is write protected. But if user starts with service solr start then the file from installation is used and all is fine.

Since the default /opt/solr/server/solr is not writable by solr user, this creates a bad user experience and classifies as a bug.

My proposal is that the installer renames bin/solr.in.sh -> bin/solr.in.sh.orig and the same with solr.in.cmd, so that the resolution logic will end up finding the one from the install. User can still override this by creating a $HOME/.solr.in.sh.