Neo4j service start is probably broken by change to "Xenial as the default build environment"

Environments
1

I have a travis config with neo4j service enabled as described in the documentation:
services:
- neo4j

However neo4j service began failing to start when its starting command changed from
sudo service neo4j start
to
sudo systemctl start neo4j
and failed with the following message:
Failed to start neo4j.service: Unit neo4j.service not found.
Specifying dist: trusty fixed the issue. But it should work on all environments, isn’t it?

For a better search of this topic, here’s the error i’ve been getting in the build logs:
neo4j.exceptions.ServiceUnavailable: Failed to establish connection to ('127.0.0.1', 7687) (reason 111)

2

I’m facing similar issues with Xenial, Bionic. But it works with Trusty.

I hope Travis fix it soon.

On Xenial:

# Services
Failed to start neo4j.service: Unit neo4j.service not found.

On Bionic:

# Services
Failed to start neo4j.service: Unit neo4j.service not found.

On Trusty:

Active database: graph.db
Directories in use:
  home:         /usr/local/neo4j-3.2.7
  config:       /usr/local/neo4j-3.2.7/conf
  logs:         /usr/local/neo4j-3.2.7/logs
  plugins:      /usr/local/neo4j-3.2.7/plugins
  import:       /usr/local/neo4j-3.2.7/import
  data:         /usr/local/neo4j-3.2.7/data
  certificates: /usr/local/neo4j-3.2.7/certificates
  run:          /usr/local/neo4j-3.2.7/run
Starting Neo4j.
WARNING: Max 30000 open files allowed, minimum of 40000 recommended. See the Neo4j manual.
Started neo4j (pid 4021). It is available at http://localhost:7474/
There may be a short delay until the server is ready.
See /usr/local/neo4j-3.2.7/logs/neo4j.log for current status.
3

Please link to an affected build, and the last successful build if applicable. Otherwise, there’s insufficient information for diagnostics.

4

I can confirm this issue exists and hasn’t been resolved.

See https://travis-ci.org/JDRomano2/comptox_ai/builds/656455702#L162
(disregard the rough state of the rest of the build)

I can’t test on Trusty due to lack of a Python 3.7 archive.

5

Neo4j server needs to be installed from a 3rd-party Apt repository.

It looks like Trusty had it preinstalled but newer images don’t.