New installation on RPi, OH2 doesn't start

I installed OpenHAB on a RPi3 with a recent Rasbian Jessie Lite OS. I followed the guide from the docs.

Java is Zulu:

$ java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_112" 
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (Zulu Embedded 8.19.0.31-linux-aarch32hf) (build 1.8.0_112-b31)
OpenJDK Client VM (Zulu Embedded 8.19.0.31-linux-aarch32hf) (build 25.112-b31, mixed mode, Evaluation)

I installed OpenHAB official release and add ons package from the repo.

Then I start OpenHAB as suggested:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/openhab2 start
[ ok ] Starting openhab2 (via systemctl): openhab2.service.

I get the status, startup failed

sudo /etc/init.d/openhab2 status
● openhab2.service - openHAB 2 - empowering the smart home
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/openhab2.service; disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Sat 2017-04-15 16:58:02 UTC; 7s ago
     Docs: http://docs.openhab.org
           https://community.openhab.org
  Process: 1366 ExecStop=/usr/share/openhab2/runtime/bin/stop (code=exited, status=127)
  Process: 1301 ExecStart=/usr/share/openhab2/start.sh server (code=exited, status=127)
 Main PID: 1301 (code=exited, status=127)

Could anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks, Ondrej

Did you try it the recommended way?

sudo systemctl start openhab2.service

Yes, I did. I posted the second attempt I made with the SysVini method, but first I tried with the systemd method.

There don’t seem to be any helpful error messages, so I don’t know how to locate the root cause.

Are you on the stable or snapshot release?

Note that with the snapshot release the builds are broken, last successful one is #858

I use the stable release:

deb http://dl.bintray.com/openhab/apt-repo2 stable main

Wanted to be sure it works :confused:

I’m not sure if those are broken too:

Hmm, looks like Murphies law hit again.

Does that mean the stable release is not really what it says it is, “stable”? Is it actually being rebuilt continuously?

Where can I get a working OH2 package?

Thanks.

Everything working again:

Thanks, OpenHAB is starting now.

Actually I don’t know if the package was faulty. After some tries, eventually I switched to the Beta release (testing repo) but got an error about /usr/bin/java not found. Created a symlink for that to the Zulu java executable and that was it. Everything is fine now.