Strange behavior of neo4j-service on Debian 8.1 - neo4j

I have installed neo4j on Debian 8.1 thanks to these instructions : http://debian.neo4j.org/
Now if, as root, I start neo4j with neo4j-service like this
service neo4j-service start
Sometimes it will works correctly but most of the the time, the neo4j-service will timeout. But the interesting fact is that neo4j is indeed started, I can go the the browser and make some queries. But the neo4j-service tells me that it failed :
root#ns***:~# service neo4j-service start
Job for neo4j-service.service failed. See 'systemctl status neo4j-service.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
root#ns***:~# systemctl status neo4j-service.service
● neo4j-service.service - LSB: Neo4j Graph Database server
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/neo4j-service)
Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Fri 2015-10-16 19:03:08 CEST; 6min ago
Process: 24556 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/neo4j-service stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 29730 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/neo4j-service start (code=killed, signal=TERM)
Oct 16 18:58:08 ns***.ip-91-***-***.eu neo4j-service[29730]: WARNING: Max 1024 open files allowed, minimum of 40 000 recommended. See the Neo4j manual.
Oct 16 18:58:08 ns***.ip-91-***-***.eu neo4j-service[29730]: Starting Neo4j Server...WARNING: not changing user
Oct 16 19:03:08 ns***.ip-91-***-***.eu systemd[1]: neo4j-service.service start operation timed out. Terminating.
Oct 16 19:03:08 ns***.ip-91-***-***.eu systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Neo4j Graph Database server.
Oct 16 19:03:08 ns***.ip-91-***-***.eu systemd[1]: Unit neo4j-service.service entered failed state.
And sometimes it will tell me that the service started correctly but will not manage to stop it.
Most of the time, I have to kill the process myself to "reset everything" correctly.
Do you know why this is happening ?
Are you aware of any issues with the neo4j-service on Debian 8.1 ?

This approach to running Neo4j is deprecated and you should use neo4j command.
Or you can write your own service wrapper and for that I suggest to you use http://supervisord.org/

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NixOS - How to configure config property which is a type of types.lines

Tried to install Flexget. On the Options website it shows that there is config defined here
How does it work? it says the type is types.lines. Tried to write some random text, but the config file is not created and the daemon fails to start.
Edit:
So here is my configs inside configuration.nix:
services.flexget = {
enable = true;
config = "asdas\n asdas";
};
and when I run sudo nixos-rebuild switch this is what happens:
building Nix...
building the system configuration...
NOT restarting the following changed units: systemd-fsck#dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-FuHua.service, systemd-fsck#dev-disk-by\x2duuid-25A4\x2d32EA.service
activating the configuration...
setting up /etc...
reloading user units for shalva...
setting up tmpfiles
reloading the following units: dbus.service
the following new units were started: flexget-runner.timer, flexget.service
warning: the following units failed: flexget-runner.service
× flexget-runner.service - FlexGet Runner
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/flexget-runner.service; linked; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2022-04-28 10:34:20 UTC; 129ms ago
TriggeredBy: ● flexget-runner.timer
Process: 92136 ExecStart=/nix/store/1pdq67nfjw2mad5s679dfgm5h98bm4xm-flexget-3.1.153/bin/flexget -c /var/lib/deluge/flexget.yml execute (code=exited, status=217/USER)
Main PID: 92136 (code=exited, status=217/USER)
IP: 0B in, 0B out
CPU: 799us
Apr 28 10:34:20 Lenovo-7200 systemd[1]: Started FlexGet Runner.
Apr 28 10:34:20 Lenovo-7200 systemd[92136]: flexget-runner.service: Failed to determine user credentials: No such process
Apr 28 10:34:20 Lenovo-7200 systemd[92136]: flexget-runner.service: Failed at step USER spawning /nix/store/1pdq67nfjw2mad5s679dfgm5h98bm4xm-flexget-3.1.153/bin/flexget: No such process
Apr 28 10:34:20 Lenovo-7200 systemd[1]: flexget-runner.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=217/USER
Apr 28 10:34:20 Lenovo-7200 systemd[1]: flexget-runner.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
warning: error(s) occurred while switching to the new configuration
I htink the problem is in /nix/store/1pdq67nfjw2mad5s679dfgm5h98bm4xm-flexget-3.1.153/bin/flexget -c /var/lib/deluge/flexget.yml. Because the config file is not created. here is the output of it:
shalva in Lenovo-7200 in ~ took 16s
❯ /nix/store/1pdq67nfjw2mad5s679dfgm5h98bm4xm-flexget-3.1.153/bin/flexget -c /var/lib/deluge/flexget.yml
Could not instantiate manager: Config `/var/lib/deluge/flexget.yml` does not appear to be a file.
my expectation is that config = "asdas\n asdas"; should at least create config file at /var/lib/deluge/flexget.yml, right? I know it will still fail because it wont be valid config, but at least it should be created...
Flexget is a software which is meant to be run together with deluge, therefore it expects the user deluge and its home directory to be available. The service will not create the user deluge by itself.
Enable deluge and flexget will start up correctly:
services.deluge.enable = true;
services.deluge.package = pkgs.deluge-2_x;
If you want to only run flexget without deluge you need to have the directory created and either change the flexget user and create the user deluge by hand.

Docker flooding syslog with run-docker-runtime logs

I've google this, but so far no way to fix it. My syslog under /var/log is being flooded every second with messages like this;
Aug 27 20:58:27 mail-server systemd[1]: run-docker-runtime\x2drunc-moby-e4bfb13118b141bf232cf981fe9b535706243c47ae0659466b8e6667bd4feceb-runc.YHoxmJ.mount: Succeeded.
Aug 27 20:58:27 mail-server systemd[1083]: run-docker-runtime\x2drunc-moby-e4bfb13118b141bf232cf981fe9b535706243c47ae0659466b8e6667bd4feceb-runc.YHoxmJ.mount: Succeeded.
Aug 27 20:58:27 mail-server systemd[8395]: run-docker-runtime\x2drunc-moby-e4bfb13118b141bf232cf981fe9b535706243c47ae0659466b8e6667bd4feceb-runc.YHoxmJ.mount: Succeeded.
Aug 27 20:58:28 mail-server systemd[1]: run-docker-runtime\x2drunc-moby-5dc4f4e0b3cbd5e5bfbcc88b8d22f92575706b7c3603847ccb2fd4e56f188f99-runc.gt51Ek.mount: Succeeded.
Aug 27 20:58:28 mail-server systemd[1083]: run-docker-runtime\x2drunc-moby-5dc4f4e0b3cbd5e5bfbcc88b8d22f92575706b7c3603847ccb2fd4e56f188f99-runc.gt51Ek.mount: Succeeded.
Aug 27 20:58:28 mail-server systemd[8395]: run-docker-runtime\x2drunc-moby-5dc4f4e0b3cbd5e5bfbcc88b8d22f92575706b7c3603847ccb2fd4e56f188f99-runc.gt51Ek.mount: Succeeded.
I am running Ubuntu 20.04 and dockerd is run by systemd.
Could anyone help me to find the cause if this? It seems that every single container is generating this.
Best,
Francis
Those messages are from systemd itself about the mount. This is addressed in systemd v249; see https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6432 for more information.
In a nutshell, that version of systemd allows controlling of that mount via its unit file using the following:
[Mount]
LogLevelMax=0
The LogLevelMax setting applies not just to the unit but also to systemd's log messages itself about the unit. That is the change introduced in v249.

Getting "neo4j.service: Failed with result 'start-limit-hit'." on installation of Neo4j Server 3.5.7

Trying to upgrade local Neo4j instances and getting errors on start.
Ubuntu 16.04: Trying to upgrade local instances of Neo4j databases which are currently at 3.3.1.
Installed Neo4j Desktop thinking I could do it with that and found the lowest version it upgrades from is 3.4. I now can't remove that. Ubuntu software fails (I just click remove, restart and Neo4j Desktop is still there). dpkg --list doesn't list neo4j desktop, so I can't use "apt-get remove" to remove it.
Uninstalled 3.3.1 and installed 3.3.9 (latest version of 3.3.x). Started Neo4j and ran fine, updating the database stores to 3.3.9.
Uninstalled 3.3.9 and installed 3.5.7.
Expecting Neo4j to start normally with "sudo service neo4j start", but now getting the following:
neo4j.service - Neo4j Graph Database
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/neo4j.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: start-limit-hit) since Tue 2019-07-09 14:00:22 BST; 58s ago
Process: 1417 ExecStart=/usr/share/neo4j/bin/neo4j console (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 1417 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Jul 09 14:00:22 doug-ubuntu systemd[1]: neo4j.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jul 09 14:00:22 doug-ubuntu systemd[1]: neo4j.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jul 09 14:00:22 doug-ubuntu systemd[1]: neo4j.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jul 09 14:00:22 doug-ubuntu systemd[1]: neo4j.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Jul 09 14:00:22 doug-ubuntu systemd[1]: Stopped Neo4j Graph Database.
Jul 09 14:00:22 doug-ubuntu systemd[1]: neo4j.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jul 09 14:00:22 doug-ubuntu systemd[1]: Failed to start Neo4j Graph Database.
Jul 09 14:00:22 doug-ubuntu systemd[1]: neo4j.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jul 09 14:00:22 doug-ubuntu systemd[1]: neo4j.service: Failed with result 'start-limit-hit'.
Checked that I am running JVE 1.8:
openjdk version "1.8.0_212"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_212-8u212-b03-0ubuntu1.16.04.1-b03)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.212-b03, mixed mode)
Unsure how to proceed. Any ideas welcome please. Thank you!
Found the answer by running "journalctl -e -u neo4j" to view the full error log. Turns out that it was an APOC jar that was installed for 3.3.x but not compatible with 3.5.x. Removing the jar file solved it.

Rebuild of label index in neo4j

My Neo4J instance suddenly stopped working, I think my drive ran out of space due to some unrelated logfiles. Anyway, now I cannot start Neo4J, it start, over and over again. If i check the consistency of the database I get the following message. (It does not work neither on version 3.3.5 or 3.4.1)
WARN : Label index was not properly shutdown and rebuild is required.
Label index: neostore.labelscanstore.db
WARN : Index was not properly shutdown and rebuild is required.
Index[ IndexRule[id=1, descriptor=Index( GENERAL, :label0 ), provider={key=lucene, version=1.0}] ]
WARN : Index was not properly shutdown and rebuild is required.
Index[ IndexRule[id=3, descriptor=Index( GENERAL, :label1 ), provider={key=lucene, version=1.0}] ]
I see that there are a few very old answers related to something that might be similar. Are they still valid or how am I supposed to solve this?
When I try to start Neo4J I get
Nov 23 15:36:08 v22018054377066500.supersrv.de systemd[1]: neo4j.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Nov 23 15:36:08 v22018054377066500.supersrv.de systemd[1]: neo4j.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 23 15:36:08 v22018054377066500.supersrv.de systemd[1]: Failed to start Neo4j Graph Database.
root#v22018054377066500:~# service neo4j start
root#v22018054377066500:~# service neo4j status
● neo4j.service - Neo4j Graph Database
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/neo4j.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2018-11-23 15:36:21 CET; 2ms ago
Process: 22073 ExecStart=/usr/share/neo4j/bin/neo4j console (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Recently, I was in the same starting situation. At the end of the day the removal and recreation of all indices and constrains solved my issue.
DROP INDEX ON :Person(name)
DROP CONSTRAINT ON (p:Person) ASSERT p.name IS UNIQUE
CREATE INDEX ON :Person(name)
CREATE CONSTRAINT ON (p:Person) ASSERT p.name IS UNIQUE
I ended up exporting to Graphml using apoc and importing again, that solved it

neo4j 3.0 (community edition) - unable to start server on debian 8

I tried neo4j 3.0 on two machines.
Had a working neo4j 2.x and upgraded to neo4j 3.0 through apt-get upgrade
Fresh installation of neo4j 3.0
In both cases, neo4j does not start and I see the following error message
[console]
sudo service neo4j start
Job for neo4j.service failed. See 'systemctl status neo4j.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
$ sudo systemctl status neo4j.service -l
● neo4j.service - LSB: Neo4j Graph Database server
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/neo4j)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2016-05-05 18:24:14 UTC; 8min ago
Process: 1377 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/neo4j start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
May 05 18:24:14 abc-com neo4j[1377]: Starting Neo4j.
May 05 18:24:14 abc-com neo4j[1377]: WARNING: Max 1024 open files allowed, minimum of 40000 recommended. See the Neo4j manual.
May 05 18:24:14 abc-com neo4j[1377]: /usr/share/neo4j/bin/neo4j: line 149: /var/run/neo4j/neo4j.pid: No such file or directory
May 05 18:24:14 abc-com systemd[1]: neo4j.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
May 05 18:24:14 abc-com systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Neo4j Graph Database server.
May 05 18:24:14 abc-com systemd[1]: Unit neo4j.service entered failed state.
cat /var/log/neo4j/neo4j.log
Caused by: org.neo4j.kernel.StoreLockException: Store and its lock file has been locked by another process: /var/lib/neo4j/data/databases/graph.db/store_lock. Please ensure no other process is using this database, and that the directory is writable (required even for read-only access)
at org.neo4j.kernel.internal.StoreLocker.storeLockException(StoreLocker.java:90)
at org.neo4j.kernel.internal.StoreLocker.checkLock(StoreLocker.java:76)
at org.neo4j.kernel.internal.StoreLockerLifecycleAdapter.start(StoreLockerLifecycleAdapter.java:40)
at org.neo4j.kernel.lifecycle.LifeSupport$LifecycleInstance.start(LifeSupport.java:434)
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