You can quickly get some basic information about the DSpace version and the products supporting it by using the [dspace]/bin/dspace version command.
[dspace]/bin/dspace version
$ bin/dspace versionDSpace version: 4.0-SNAPSHOT SCM revision: da53991b6b7e9f86c2a7f5292e3c2e9606f9f44c SCM branch: UNKNOWN OS: Linux(amd64) version 3.7.10-gentooDiscovery enabled.Lucene search enabled. JRE: Oracle Corporation version 1.7.0_21 Ant version: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.4 compiled on June 25 2012 Maven version: 3.0.4 DSpace home: /home/dspace$
To troubleshoot a specific error, see our Troubleshoot an error guide