Starting solr either service solr start or /etc/init.d/solr start gives the following error:

Starting solr (via systemctl): Job for solr.service failed. See 'systemctl status solr.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
[FAILED]

Looking in the /var/log/messages: tail -f /var/log/messages

Oct 28 12:11:58 ezp5 systemd: Starting SYSV: SOLR indexing server...
Oct 28 12:11:58 ezp5 solr: * Starting Solr indexing server (solr)
Oct 28 12:11:59 ezp5 solr: Error starting solr!
Oct 28 12:11:59 ezp5 solr: ...failed.
Oct 28 12:11:59 ezp5 systemd: solr.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Oct 28 12:11:59 ezp5 systemd: Failed to start SYSV: SOLR indexing server.
Oct 28 12:11:59 ezp5 systemd: Unit solr.service entered failed state.