I am starting a fresh brand new install of elasticsearch. The init process is failing. If I manually start it with all the options, it works just fine. What I don't get is there is a mysterious back slash showing up.
While digging in the logs, I see this when I manually start the init process.
[2015-05-21 10:42:23,887][INFO ][node ] [jawas-bdlogstash1] version[1.5.2], pid[11458], build[62ff986/2015-04-27T09:21:06Z]
[2015-05-21 10:42:23,888][INFO ][node ] [jawas-bdlogstash1] initializing ...
[2015-05-21 10:42:23,902][INFO ][plugins ] [jawas-bdlogstash1] loaded [marvel], sites [marvel]
[2015-05-21 10:42:23,957][ERROR][bootstrap ] Exception
org.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchIllegalStateException: Failed to created node environment
at org.elasticsearch.node.internal.InternalNode.<init>(InternalNode.java:162)
at org.elasticsearch.node.NodeBuilder.build(NodeBuilder.java:159)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:70)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:213)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:32)
Caused by: java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /elasticsearch\
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:84)
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102)
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:107)
at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.createDirectory(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:383)
at java.nio.file.Files.createDirectory(Files.java:630)
at java.nio.file.Files.createAndCheckIsDirectory(Files.java:734)
at java.nio.file.Files.createDirectories(Files.java:720)
at org.elasticsearch.env.NodeEnvironment.<init>(NodeEnvironment.java:105)
at org.elasticsearch.node.internal.InternalNode.<init>(InternalNode.java:160)
... 4 more
Here is the file permissions of my directory:
root@bdlogstash:/# ls | grep elasticsearch
drwxr-xr-x 2 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K May 21 10:37 elasticsearch
root@bdlogstash:/#
Here is my init file:
#!/bin/sh
#
# /etc/init.d/elasticsearch -- startup script for Elasticsearch
#
# Written by Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>.
# Modified for Debian GNU/Linux by Ian Murdock <imurdock@gnu.ai.mit.edu>.
# Modified for Tomcat by Stefan Gybas <sgybas@debian.org>.
# Modified for Tomcat6 by Thierry Carrez <thierry.carrez@ubuntu.com>.
# Additional improvements by Jason Brittain <jason.brittain@mulesoft.com>.
# Modified by Nicolas Huray for Elasticsearch <nicolas.huray@gmail.com>.
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: elasticsearch
# Required-Start: $network $remote_fs $named
# Required-Stop: $network $remote_fs $named
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Starts elasticsearch
# Description: Starts elasticsearch using start-stop-daemon
### END INIT INFO
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
NAME=elasticsearch
DESC="Elasticsearch Server"
DEFAULT=/etc/default/$NAME
if [ `id -u` -ne 0 ]; then
echo "You need root privileges to run this script"
exit 1
fi
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
if [ -r /etc/default/rcS ]; then
. /etc/default/rcS
fi
# The following variables can be overwritten in $DEFAULT
# Run Elasticsearch as this user ID and group ID
ES_USER=elasticsearch
ES_GROUP=elasticsearch
# The first existing directory is used for JAVA_HOME (if JAVA_HOME is not defined in $DEFAULT)
JDK_DIRS="/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-7-oracle-x64 /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/ /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-armhf /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/ /usr/lib/jvm/default-java"
# Look for the right JVM to use
for jdir in $JDK_DIRS; do
if [ -r "$jdir/bin/java" -a -z "${JAVA_HOME}" ]; then
JAVA_HOME="$jdir"
fi
done
export JAVA_HOME
#Set memory allocation
ES_MIN_MEM=1g
ES_MAX_MEM=4g
# Directory where the Elasticsearch binary distribution resides
ES_HOME=/opt/$NAME
# Heap size defaults to 256m min, 1g max
# Set ES_HEAP_SIZE to 50% of available RAM, but no more than 31g
ES_HEAP_SIZE=6g
# Heap new generation
#ES_HEAP_NEWSIZE=
# max direct memory
#ES_DIRECT_SIZE=
# Additional Java OPTS
#ES_JAVA_OPTS=
# Maximum number of open files
MAX_OPEN_FILES=65535
# Maximum amount of locked memory
#MAX_LOCKED_MEMORY=
# Elasticsearch log directory
LOG_DIR=/var/log/$NAME
# Elasticsearch data directory
DATA_DIR=/$NAME/
# Elasticsearch work directory
WORK_DIR=/tmp/$NAME
# Elasticsearch configuration directory
CONF_DIR=/etc/$NAME
# Elasticsearch configuration file (elasticsearch.yml)
CONF_FILE=$CONF_DIR/elasticsearch.yml
# Maximum number of VMA (Virtual Memory Areas) a process can own
MAX_MAP_COUNT=262144
# End of variables that can be overwritten in $DEFAULT
# overwrite settings from default file
if [ -f "$DEFAULT" ]; then
. "$DEFAULT"
fi
# Define other required variables
PID_FILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
DAEMON=$ES_HOME/bin/elasticsearch
DAEMON_OPTS="-d -p $PID_FILE --default.config=$CONF_FILE --default.path.home=$ES_HOME --default.path.logs=$LOG_DIR --default.path.data=$DATA_DIR --default.path.work=$WORK_DIR --default.path.conf=$CONF_DIR"
export ES_HEAP_SIZE
export ES_HEAP_NEWSIZE
export ES_DIRECT_SIZE
export ES_JAVA_OPTS
# Check DAEMON exists
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
checkJava() {
if [ -x "$JAVA_HOME/bin/java" ]; then
JAVA="$JAVA_HOME/bin/java"
else
JAVA=`which java`
fi
if [ ! -x "$JAVA" ]; then
echo "Could not find any executable java binary. Please install java in your PATH or set JAVA_HOME"
exit 1
fi
}
case "$1" in
start)
checkJava
if [ -n "$MAX_LOCKED_MEMORY" -a -z "$ES_HEAP_SIZE" ]; then
log_failure_msg "MAX_LOCKED_MEMORY is set - ES_HEAP_SIZE must also be set"
exit 1
fi
log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC"
pid=`pidofproc -p $PID_FILE elasticsearch`
if [ -n "$pid" ] ; then
log_begin_msg "Already running."
log_end_msg 0
exit 0
fi
# Prepare environment
mkdir -p "$LOG_DIR" "$DATA_DIR" "$WORK_DIR" && chown "$ES_USER":"$ES_GROUP" "$LOG_DIR" "$DATA_DIR" "$WORK_DIR"
touch "$PID_FILE" && chown "$ES_USER":"$ES_GROUP" "$PID_FILE"
if [ -n "$MAX_OPEN_FILES" ]; then
ulimit -n $MAX_OPEN_FILES
fi
if [ -n "$MAX_LOCKED_MEMORY" ]; then
ulimit -l $MAX_LOCKED_MEMORY
fi
if [ -n "$MAX_MAP_COUNT" ]; then
sysctl -q -w vm.max_map_count=$MAX_MAP_COUNT
fi
# Start Daemon
start-stop-daemon --start -b --user "$ES_USER" -c "$ES_USER" --pidfile "$PID_FILE" --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
log_end_msg $?
;;
stop)
log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC"
if [ -f "$PID_FILE" ]; then
start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile "$PID_FILE" --user "$ES_USER" --retry=TERM/20/KILL/5 >/dev/null
if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
log_progress_msg "$DESC is not running but pid file exists, cleaning up"
elif [ $? -eq 3 ]; then
PID="`cat $PID_FILE`"
log_failure_msg "Failed to stop $DESC (pid $PID)"
exit 1
fi
rm -f "$PID_FILE"
else
log_progress_msg "(not running)"
fi
log_end_msg 0
;;
status)
status_of_proc -p $PID_FILE elasticsearch elasticsearch && exit 0 || exit $?
;;
restart|force-reload)
if [ -f "$PID_FILE" ]; then
$0 stop
sleep 1
fi
$0 start
;;
*)
log_success_msg "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|force-reload|status}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0