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Hoss Man commented on SOLR-337: ------------------------------- FYI: in the current trunk, SolrDispatchFilter logs a SEVERE error suggesting you double check your solr/home value before logging the specific exception encountered... INFO: Solr home set to '/bogus/' Nov 3, 2007 11:53:24 AM org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter init SEVERE: Could not start SOLR. Check solr/home property java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.init(SolrDispatchFilter.java:71) ... ...But we could probably do a better job logging this in a more appropriate spot, and then skipping a lot of the work that comes after that that is throwing those exceptions. > Solr home wrong or missing generates class not found exception > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: SOLR-337 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-337 > Project: Solr > Issue Type: Improvement > Environment: Tomcat 5.5.23 > Reporter: Paul Sundling > Priority: Minor > > If a user types in a bad location for solr/home in JNDI or doesn't have one > set, it causes a stack trace that has no obvious relationship with the cause > (No Class Defined). It would be nice if the user got an error message > instead about what the problem is. Given the number of non-Java users, this > could be especially confusing to them. > INFO: Solr home set to '/solr_bad_dir/' > 18:59:38,427 ERROR > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/search-solr] > Exception starting filter SolrRequestFilter > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError > at > org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.init(SolrDispatchFilter.java:74) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:221) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:302) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:78) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:3635) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4222) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:760) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:740) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:544) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:626) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:553) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:488) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1138) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311) > at > org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:120) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1022) > at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:736) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1014) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:448) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:700) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:552) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:295) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:433) > 18:59:38,427 ERROR org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext > Error filterStart > 18:59:38,427 ERROR org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext > Context [/search-solr] startup failed due to previous errors -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.