# Any solutions ? Please share me

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-solutions-please-share-me/206263>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [November 3, 2019, 2:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-solutions-please-share-me/206263 "2019-11-03T02:10:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![pbona](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pbona/32/54832_2.png) [@pbona](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pbona)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 2:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-solutions-please-share-me/206263/1 "2019-11-03T02:10:25Z")

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```
[root@elastic logstash]# tail -f /var/log/logstash/logstash-plain.log
[2019-10-30T04:39:22,142][FATAL][logstash.runner] An unexpected error occurred! {:error=>#<ArgumentError: Path "/var/lib/logstash/queue" must be a writable directory. It is not writable.>, :backtrace=>["/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/settings.rb:489:in `validate'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/settings.rb:271:in `validate_value'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/settings.rb:182:in `block in validate_all'", "org/jruby/RubyHash.java:1417:in `each'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/settings.rb:181:in `validate_all'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/runner.rb:283:in `execute'", "/usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.5.0/gems/clamp-0.6.5/lib/clamp/command.rb:67:in `run'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/runner.rb:242:in `run'", "/usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.5.0/gems/clamp-0.6.5/lib/clamp/command.rb:132:in `run'", "/usr/share/logstash/lib/bootstrap/environment.rb:73:in `<main>'"]}
[2019-10-30T04:39:22,163][ERROR][org.logstash.Logstash] java.lang.IllegalStateException: Logstash stopped processing because of an error: (SystemExit) exit
[2019-10-30T04:41:13,961][FATAL][logstash.runner] An unexpected error occurred! {:error=>#<ArgumentError: Path "/var/lib/logstash/queue" must be a writable directory. It is not writable.>, :backtrace=>["/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/settings.rb:489:in `validate'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/settings.rb:271:in `validate_value'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/settings.rb:182:in `block in validate_all'", "org/jruby/RubyHash.java:1417:in `each'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/settings.rb:181:in `validate_all'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/runner.rb:283:in `execute'", "/usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.5.0/gems/clamp-0.6.5/lib/clamp/command.rb:67:in `run'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/runner.rb:242:in `run'", "/usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.5.0/gems/clamp-0.6.5/lib/clamp/command.rb:132:in `run'", "/usr/share/logstash/lib/bootstrap/environment.rb:73:in `<main>'"]}
[2019-10-30T04:41:14,057][ERROR][org.logstash.Logstash] java.lang.IllegalStateException: Logstash stopped processing because of an error: (SystemExit) exit
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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 8:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-solutions-please-share-me/206263/2 "2019-11-03T08:43:40Z")

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> [@pbona](#):
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> Path "/var/lib/logstash/queue" must be a writable directory. It is not writable.

I think this error message is quite clear. What is confusing about it?

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**Author:** ![StruggleYang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/struggleyang/32/57040_2.png) [@StruggleYang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/StruggleYang)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-solutions-please-share-me/206263/3 "2019-11-03T09:08:23Z")

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I think so! @pbona must modify this directory to be writable

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**Author:** ![pbona](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pbona/32/54832_2.png) [@pbona](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pbona)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 11:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-solutions-please-share-me/206263/4 "2019-11-03T23:18:03Z")

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@Christian_Dahlqvist @StruggleYang Because I have gave the permission to that directory with 777 but it still doesn't working. That's problem.

```
  [root@elastic ~]# ll -ld /var/lib/logstash/queue
drwxrwxrwx. 2 logstash logstash 4096 Oct 28 01:43 /var/lib/logstash/queue
```

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 11:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-solutions-please-share-me/206263/5 "2019-12-01T23:18:09Z")

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