Setting up Neo4J on arch linux

[Jared Windover]

Hi guys,

I've installed neo4j with pacman and am able to run the web console, however when I try to just start the server (either with neo4j start or systemctl start neo4j.service) it says it failed to start within the timeout period, but it doesn't wait for the full timeout period. Looking at the scripts, it looks like it's having trouble with su-ing as the $NEO4J_USER. I'm a programmer, but I don't have much experience with server config type things, so any help at all would be appreciated. 

Thanks.

[Michael Hunger]

can you try to run: bin/neo4j console 

to see where the issue is?

Thanks Michael

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[Jared Windover]

Hi Michael,

I'm able to run that, but what should I be doing to check where the issue is? Nothing seems to go wrong with running it. Are there diagnostics I can do within it?

(Also sorry about the delay. I thought I was subscribed to this post, but apparently not)

-Jared

[Nigel Small]

Hi Jared

I've been considering setting up an Arch VM recently as I've been reading very good things about it. I managed to get Neo4j working on FreeBSD the other day so Arch should be simple in comparison :-)

Arch is set up a little differently to Debian/Ubuntu - which are our usual "go to" distros - so there will almost certainly be a bit of tweaking required. I'll try to get something installed over the next couple of days and get back to you.

Cheers
Nige

[Jared Windover]

Thanks Nigel, 

I look forward to hearing how you get it up and running.

-Jared

[Felix Dietze]

Hi, is there any update on this one? I'm having the exact same behavior.

I'm on Arch Linux, too. But I downloaded neo4j from the website.

It has the same behavior with neo4j-community-2.0.4-unix and neo4j-community-2.1.6-unix.

[Jared Windover]

Yeah, there was, but it was on Stack Overflow.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26395551/error-running-neo4j-with-systemd-on-arch-linux

I finally got everything sorted out through this question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26373129/error-on-neo4j-server-start-on-arch-linux

Looked like some sort of issue with the way the user was being created (had the details in my head better at the time). I'm away from the relevant computer at the moment, but if you want to compare setups I can have a look tonight.

Hope you get it running!

-Jared