How to fix: Error CREATEing SolrCore 'gettingstarted': Unable to create core

Question

I\'m getting this error when I try to create a new core in solr.

root@ubuntu:/opt/solr# bin/solr create -c gettingstarted -n data_driven_schema_configs

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Answer 1

Looks to me like a possible user permission issue. You seem to be running the commands as root, but some of the work is done by the Solr server. Is it possible that the server process is run with a user that does not have access to the directories mentioned in the error message.