The default runlevel for Debian is 2 not 3 (see http://wiki.debian.org/RunLevel), so the example in the init-script bin/scripts/debian/solr should be changed from:

1. Example:
2. cp solr /etc/init.d/solr
3. cd /etc/init.d && chmod 755 solr
4. cd /etc/rc3.d && ln -s ../init.d/solr S70solr
5. cd /etc/rc5.d && ln -s ../init.d/solr S70solr
6. cd /etc/rc3.d && ln -s ../init.d/solr K70solr
7. cd /etc/rc5.d && ln -s ../init.d/solr K70solr

to:

1. Example:
2. cp solr /etc/init.d/solr
3. cd /etc/init.d && chmod 755 solr
4. cd /etc/rc2.d && ln -s ../init.d/solr S70solr
5. cd /etc/rc5.d && ln -s ../init.d/solr S70solr
6. cd /etc/rc2.d && ln -s ../init.d/solr K70solr
7. cd /etc/rc5.d && ln -s ../init.d/solr K70solr