Solr service not installing with solr version < 5

[Rade333]

Hey,

My playbook:

---
- hosts: all
  become: yes
  roles:
    - { role: geerlingguy.java }
    - { role: geerlingguy.solr, solr_version: "4.10.4" }

Fails on this task:

TASK [geerlingguy.solr : Ensure solr is started and enabled on boot.] **********
fatal: [192.168.104.11]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "Could not find the requested service \"'solr'\": "}

See full output here: http://pastebin.com/w3CSYCSa

I'm using your geerlingguy/ubuntu1604 vagrant box, ansible 2.2.0.0 and release 3.4.1 of this role.

I was able to work around the issue if I run this command in the vagrant machine:

sudo update-rc.d solr defaults

Any thoughts?

[kporras07]

+1 here. Is this something similar to arknoll/ansible-role-selenium#20 ?

I also noticed it works when you run vagrant provision again

[Rade333]

Indeed it seems like the same problem. I created a similar fix to this one geerlingguy/ansible-role-mailhog@44b88cc and a PR #55

[geerlingguy]

Fix is contained in bugfix release 3.4.2.

[Rade333]

There was still an issue with the service, it wasn't starting and restarting properly and didn't read the cores properly. With the new changes in #56 it now seems to work again!

[geerlingguy]

@Rade333 - Can you open a new issue for any new errors you're encountering? I need to see what's causing issues for you after the changes in the latest version before I can make sure the further changes (which seem to affect Solr 5+) are necessary and correct.

[Rade333]

Sure, created issue #57