# After installing sheild getting MappingUpdatedAction Exception

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-installing-sheild-getting-mappingupdatedaction-exception/59199>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 29, 2016, 3:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-installing-sheild-getting-mappingupdatedaction-exception/59199 "2016-08-29T15:10:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![balubollam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a587f6/32.png) [@balubollam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/balubollam)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 3:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-installing-sheild-getting-mappingupdatedaction-exception/59199/1 "2016-08-29T15:10:10Z")

</div>

Hi,

My ES version is :1.5.2  
os:ubunto  
inastalled shield:  
bin/plugin install elasticsearch/shield/latest  
bin/plugin install elasticsearch/license/latest

When i tring to add the users  
bin/shield/esusers useradd new\_username -r admin

it is saying to copy folder "sheild" from /usr/share/elasticsearch to the /etc/elasticsearch

i copied and execute the comamnd..

Now then i restrated my elasticsearch.

/etc/init.d/elasticsearch restart

Now getting this belkow exception:  
Restarting elasticsearch:  
Exception in thread "Thread-1" java.lang.NullPointerException  
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.action.index.MappingUpdatedAction.stop(MappingUpdatedAction.java:108)  
at org.elasticsearch.node.internal.InternalNode.stop(InternalNode.java:287)  
at org.elasticsearch.node.internal.InternalNode.close(InternalNode.java:321)  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap$1.run(Bootstrap.java:75)

PLease anyone help me ot regarding this

Thanks

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![msimos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@msimos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/msimos)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-installing-sheild-getting-mappingupdatedaction-exception/59199/2 "2016-08-29T18:31:18Z")

</div>

Hi,

I suggest you remove the Shield and License plugins and re-install them using this command:

cd /usr/share/elasticsearch  
sudo bin/plugin -i elasticsearch/license/1.0.0 -Des.path.conf=/etc/elasticsearch  
sudo bin/plugin -i elasticsearch/shield/1.3.3 -Des.path.conf=/etc/elasticsearch

See these instructions:

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/shield/shield-1.3/installing-shield.html#deb-rpm-install](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/shield/shield-1.3/installing-shield.html#deb-rpm-install)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![balubollam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a587f6/32.png) [@balubollam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/balubollam)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 11:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-installing-sheild-getting-mappingupdatedaction-exception/59199/3 "2016-08-30T11:31:47Z")

</div>

Hi,

okayy ....thank you

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-installing-sheild-getting-mappingupdatedaction-exception/59199/4 "2017-07-05T22:24:04Z")

</div>

Closed on July 5, 2017, 10:24pm UTC