Failed to start openHAB 2 on Raspberry PI 3

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After I run the following commands:

sudo systemctl start openhab2.service
sudo systemctl status openhab2.service

I get the following result:

● openhab2.service - openHAB 2 - empowering the smart home
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/openhab2.service; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Tue 2016-12-27 00:14:01 UTC; 56s ago
Docs: http://docs.openhab.org
https://community.openhab.org
Process: 3674 ExecStop=/usr/share/openhab2/runtime/bin/stop (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Process: 3561 ExecStart=/usr/share/openhab2/start.sh server (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 3561 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Dec 27 00:14:01 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Unit openhab2.service entered failed state.
Dec 27 00:14:01 raspberrypi systemd[1]: openhab2.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Dec 27 00:14:01 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopping openHAB 2 - empowering the smart home…
Dec 27 00:14:01 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting openHAB 2 - empowering the smart home…
Dec 27 00:14:01 raspberrypi systemd[1]: openhab2.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Dec 27 00:14:01 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Failed to start openHAB 2 - empowering the smart home.
Dec 27 00:14:01 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Unit openhab2.service entered failed state.

2

Well I updated my version of Java to Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_65-b17) and it now works

3

Remember that this java version is not the most recent one. For OH2 in general, it’s ok, but if you want to use myopenhab, you have to use a newer version (1.8.0_101 or above).

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