Neo4j Fails to start after Install

[Bo Chen]

Hi Guys,

I'm a newbie to Neo4j and recently installed it with Homebrew onto my Mac OSX Lion. When I run neo4j start as per the tutorial, I'm getting this error

bchen-mbp:~ bchen$ neo4j start

WARNING! You are using an unsupported version of the Java runtime. Please use Oracle(R) Java(TM) Runtime Environment 7.

Starting Neo4j Server...WARNING: not changing user

process [24677]... waiting for server to be ready... Failed to start within 120 seconds.

Neo4j Server may have failed to start, please check the logs.

bchen-mbp:~ bchen$ neo4j console

WARNING: Max 256 open files allowed, minimum of 40 000 recommended. See the Neo4j manual.

Starting Neo4j Server console-mode...

7/30/13 3:05:38 PM org.neo4j.server.CommunityBootstrapper WARNING: WARNING! You are using an unsupported version of the Java runtime. Please use Oracle(R) Java(TM) Runtime Environment 7.

7/30/13 3:05:39 PM org.neo4j.server.AbstractNeoServer INFO: Setting startup timeout to: 120000ms based on -1

7/30/13 3:05:39 PM org.neo4j.server.database.Database INFO: Loaded neo4j tuning properties from conf/neo4j.properties

15:05:39.212 [main] WARN  o.neo4j.kernel.EmbeddedGraphDatabase - WARNING! You are using an unsupported version of the Java runtime. Please use Oracle(R) Java(TM) Runtime Environment 7.

7/30/13 3:05:39 PM org.neo4j.server.database.Database SEVERE: Failed to start database.

7/30/13 3:05:39 PM org.neo4j.server.CommunityBootstrapper SEVERE: 

java.lang.RuntimeException: org.neo4j.kernel.lifecycle.LifecycleException: Component 'org.neo4j.kernel.extension.KernelExtensions@4013fba1' was successfully initialized, but failed to start. Please see attached cause exception.

at org.neo4j.kernel.InternalAbstractGraphDatabase.run(InternalAbstractGraphDatabase.java:281)

at org.neo4j.kernel.EmbeddedGraphDatabase.<init>(EmbeddedGraphDatabase.java:106)

at org.neo4j.graphdb.factory.GraphDatabaseFactory$1.newDatabase(GraphDatabaseFactory.java:88)

at org.neo4j.graphdb.factory.GraphDatabaseBuilder.newGraphDatabase(GraphDatabaseBuilder.java:207)

at org.neo4j.server.database.CommunityDatabase.start(CommunityDatabase.java:59)

at org.neo4j.server.AbstractNeoServer.start(AbstractNeoServer.java:163)

at org.neo4j.server.Bootstrapper.start(Bootstrapper.java:86)

at org.neo4j.server.Bootstrapper.main(Bootstrapper.java:49)

Caused by: org.neo4j.kernel.lifecycle.LifecycleException: Component 'org.neo4j.kernel.extension.KernelExtensions@4013fba1' was successfully initialized, but failed to start. Please see attached cause exception.

at org.neo4j.kernel.lifecycle.LifeSupport$LifecycleInstance.start(LifeSupport.java:497)

at org.neo4j.kernel.lifecycle.LifeSupport.start(LifeSupport.java:104)

at org.neo4j.kernel.InternalAbstractGraphDatabase.run(InternalAbstractGraphDatabase.java:259)

... 7 more

Caused by: org.neo4j.kernel.lifecycle.LifecycleException: Component 'org.neo4j.shell.impl.ShellServerKernelExtension@23904e0d' was successfully initialized, but failed to start. Please see attached cause exception.

at org.neo4j.kernel.lifecycle.LifeSupport$LifecycleInstance.start(LifeSupport.java:497)

at org.neo4j.kernel.lifecycle.LifeSupport.start(LifeSupport.java:104)

at org.neo4j.kernel.extension.KernelExtensions.start(KernelExtensions.java:113)

at org.neo4j.kernel.lifecycle.LifeSupport$LifecycleInstance.start(LifeSupport.java:491)

... 9 more

Caused by: java.rmi.ConnectIOException: error during JRMP connection establishment; nested exception is: 

java.io.EOFException

at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.createConnection(TCPChannel.java:286)

at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.newConnection(TCPChannel.java:184)

at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.newCall(UnicastRef.java:322)

at sun.rmi.registry.RegistryImpl_Stub.rebind(Unknown Source)

at java.rmi.Naming.rebind(Naming.java:160)

at org.neo4j.shell.impl.RmiLocation.bind(RmiLocation.java:198)

at org.neo4j.shell.impl.RemotelyAvailableServer.makeRemotelyAvailable(RemotelyAvailableServer.java:99)

at org.neo4j.shell.impl.AbstractServer.makeRemotelyAvailable(AbstractServer.java:156)

at org.neo4j.shell.impl.ShellBootstrap.enable(ShellBootstrap.java:122)

at org.neo4j.shell.impl.ShellBootstrap.load(ShellBootstrap.java:112)

at org.neo4j.shell.impl.ShellServerKernelExtension.start(ShellServerKernelExtension.java:47)

at org.neo4j.kernel.lifecycle.LifeSupport$LifecycleInstance.start(LifeSupport.java:491)

... 12 more

Caused by: java.io.EOFException

at java.io.DataInputStream.readByte(DataInputStream.java:250)

at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.createConnection(TCPChannel.java:228)

... 23 more

7/30/13 3:05:39 PM org.neo4j.server.CommunityBootstrapper SEVERE: Failed to start Neo Server on port [7474]

Anybody have any fixes for this?

Thanks for the help!

[Peter Neubauer]

Hi there,

for me I have 

➜  neo4j-org git:(master) ✗ brew info neo4j

neo4j: stable community-1.9.2-unix, devel community-2.0.0-M03-unix

➜  neo4j-org git:(master) ✗ java -version

java version "1.7.0_21"

Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_21-b12)

Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.21-b01, mixed mode)

➜  neo4j-org git:(master) ✗ uname -a

Darwin neo.local 12.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 12.4.0: Wed May  1 17:57:12 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2050.24.15~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

Make sure you have Java 7 installed?

/peter

Cheers,

/peter neubauer

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