# AccessDeniedException Failed to created node environment error **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 21, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessdeniedexception-failed-to-created-node-environment-error/1108 "2015-05-21T15:51:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Don\_Pich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Don\_Pich](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Don_Pich)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessdeniedexception-failed-to-created-node-environment-error/1108/1 "2015-05-21T15:51:06Z")
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.(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.(NodeEnvironment.java:105) at org.elasticsearch.node.internal.InternalNode.(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 . # Modified for Debian GNU/Linux by Ian Murdock . # Modified for Tomcat by Stefan Gybas . # Modified for Tomcat6 by Thierry Carrez . # Additional improvements by Jason Brittain . # Modified by Nicolas Huray for Elasticsearch . # ### 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 ``` ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Pich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Don\_Pich](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Don_Pich)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessdeniedexception-failed-to-created-node-environment-error/1108/2 "2015-05-21T16:39:04Z")
I coworker helped me figure it out. ``` path.data: /elasticsearch ``` had a back slash on it. Works now. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 12:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessdeniedexception-failed-to-created-node-environment-error/1108/3 "2017-07-06T00:12:36Z")