{"id":3526,"date":"2016-03-30T00:49:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T00:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/?p=3526"},"modified":"2016-03-30T00:49:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T00:49:52","slug":"fixing-solr-error-devnull-permission-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/fixing-solr-error-devnull-permission-denied\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing solr error: \/dev\/null: Permission denied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you try to start solr on Ubuntu (service solr start) you can hit the following error:<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"bash\">\nservice solr start\n\/opt\/solr\/bin\/solr: line 120: \/dev\/null: Permission denied\nJava not found, or an error was encountered when running java.\nA working Java 7 or later is required to run Solr!\nPlease install Java or fix JAVA_HOME before running this script.\nCommand that we tried: '\/usr\/lib\/jvm\/java-7-openjdk-i386\/bin\/java -version'\nActive Path:\n\/usr\/local\/bin:\/usr\/bin:\/bin:\/usr\/local\/games:\/usr\/games:\/usr\/lib\/jvm\/java-8-oracle\/bin:\/usr\/lib\/jvm\/java-8-oracle\/db\/bin:\/usr\/lib\/jvm\/java-8-oracle\/jre\/bin\n<\/pre>\n<p>This will happen if &#8220;\/dev\/null&#8221; has changed into a regular file.<\/p>\n<p>To fix this, run the following:<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"bash\">\nrm \/dev\/null\nmknod \/dev\/null c 1 3\nchmod 666 \/dev\/null\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you try to start solr on Ubuntu (service solr start) you can hit the following error: service solr start \/opt\/solr\/bin\/solr: line 120: \/dev\/null: Permission denied Java not found, or an error was encountered when running java. A working Java 7 or later is required to run Solr! Please install Java or fix JAVA_HOME before &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/fixing-solr-error-devnull-permission-denied\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fixing solr error: \/dev\/null: Permission denied&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[517,559],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}