Increase neo4j startup

Question

I am trying to increase the neo4j statup timeout but I didn't find the configuration to do so. I increased the timeout in neo4j daemon but it didn't change the startup timeout. Mt graph is very large(140GB) and 120 second is probably is not enough.

I have neo4j 2.1.7 installed on Ubuntu 12.04

Error:

../bin/neo4j start
Using additional JVM arguments:  -server -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -Dorg.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 -XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow
Starting Neo4j Server...process [7886]... waiting for server to be ready...2015-02-22 16:54:10.044+0000 INFO  [API] Setting startup timeout to: 120000ms based on -1
2015-02-22 16:54:10.044+0000 INFO  [API] Setting startup timeout to: 120000ms based on -1
......................................................................................................................2015-02-22 16:56:11.610+0000 INFO  [API] Successfully shutdown Neo4j Server.
2015-02-22 16:56:11.610+0000 INFO  [API] Successfully shutdown Neo4j Server.
 Failed to start within 120 seconds.
Neo4j Server may have failed to start, please check the logs.

Answer 1

I added org.neo4j.server.startup_timeout=0 to the file below and it did it. I start neo4j and after 20 minutes, it recovered and start.

neo4j-server.properties

Answer 2

You can also use neo4j start-no-wait instead of neo4j start in case you don't want to do a config change.

Answer 3

Did you have a crash before so that it has to check for recovery?

Did you check the logs as it states? Best data/graph.db/messages.log and data/logs/neo4j.log

You can also start neo4j console then it will run in foreground mode and take as long as it takes.