[SOLR-7096] The Solr service script doesn't like SOLR_HOME pointing to a path containing a symlink

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Affects Version/s: 5.0
• Fix Version/s: 5.2, 6.0
• Assignee: Timothy Potter
• Reporter: Timothy Potter
• Created: 10/Feb/15 20:12
• Updated: 09/May/16 18:54
• Resolved: 02/Mar/16 23:40

Description

While documenting the process to upgrade a SolrCloud cluster from 4.x to 5.0, I discovered that the init.d/solr script doesn't like the SOLR_HOME pointing to a path that contains a symlink. Work-around is to use an absolute path

Issue Links

• is related to: SOLR-7102 bin/solr should activate cloud mode if ZK_HOST is set