Service does not work on SOLR 4.x and Ubuntu 16.04

[hussainweb]

I am using this role as part of DrupalVM. I have set solr_version to 4.5.1.

SOLR installs correctly (at least as far as the Ansible tasks dictate), but the service never starts. However, when running the init.d version of the script, it works fine:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/solr start

I was wondering why it doesn't do the same thing when run as sudo service solr start. Then I realized that Ubuntu 16.04 uses systemd which does not use the init.d script. I saw the systemd version of the file and saw the problem.

ExecStart={{ solr_install_path }}/bin/solr -e cloud -noprompt

The {{ solr_install_path }}/bin directory on SOLR 4.5.1 is empty. To make sure that this is not a packaging problem, I even cross-checked it with SOLR 4.9.1 and it was still empty. I am assuming this is true for all 4.x releases. As a side note, the configure-solr.sh included in DrupalVM doesn't work for the same reason.

I see the above being changed in #56 but that has not been merged yet. I know there is a reason that is not merged yet and I want to bring this issue to your attention as well.

[hussainweb]

Oh, I found another issue #81 which already covers this problem. Closing this one as duplicate.