Failed to start neo4j 2.1.2 server

Question

I cannot start the last Neo4j 2.1.2 community server on OSX using java 7. After downloading and extracting neo4j-community-2.1.2-unix.tar.gz, I tried to start. / bin / neo 4j start without changing any configuration or dir data, but with an error

neo4j-community-2.1.2 markus$ ./bin/neo4j start 
Using additional JVM arguments:  -server -XX:+DisableExplicitGC - org.neo4j.server.properties=conf/neo4j-server.properties -Djava.util.logging.config.file=conf/logging.properties -Dlog4j.configuration=file:conf/log4j.properties -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled 
Starting Neo4j Server...WARNING: not changing user 
process [14899]... waiting for server to be ready................................. Failed to start within 120 seconds. 
Neo4j Server may have failed to start, please check the logs.

The data / log / console.log does not contain much useful:

2014-06-20 06:24:04.865+0000 INFO  [API] Setting startup timeout to: 120000ms based on -1

I am running java 7 on OSX Mavericks 10.9.2:

java version "1.7.0_45"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_45-b18)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.45-b08, mixed mode)

Any ideas on what is going wrong or how best to debug the problem evaluated

Answer 1

I have the same problem.

In my case, it was because I neo4j-shelltried to use the used port 1337.

conf/neo4j.properties - ,

# The port the shell will listen on, default is 1337
remote_shell_port=1338