# Bin/plugin Failing to find org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginManager **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [December 1, 2012, 2:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bin-plugin-failing-to-find-org-elasticsearch-plugins-pluginmanager/9910 "2012-12-01T02:28:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![amiribarksdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@amiribarksdale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/amiribarksdale)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2012, 2:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bin-plugin-failing-to-find-org-elasticsearch-plugins-pluginmanager/9910/1 "2012-12-01T02:28:08Z")
After trying and failing to run elasticsearch/bin/plugin, which would fail with this: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/elasticsearch /plugins/PluginManager Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.elasticsearch.plugins. PluginManager at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266) Could not find the main class: org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginManager. Program will exit. I dug in to see what was being run by echoing the exec line at the end of elasticsearch/bin/plugin. As a test, I decided to run a stripped down version of the command, to see whether I could get the usage menu instead of the error above. Here is the stripped down command: /usr/bin/java -Xmx64m -Xms16m -Delasticsearch -Des.path.home=/var/local/elasticsearch -classpath "/var/local/elasticsearch/lib/elasticsearch-0.19.11.jar" org. elasticsearch.plugins.PluginManager This command works fine on my linux machine, but not in my Mac vm, running ubuntu 12.04. I cannot figure it out. This gist shows the command and the output: > Amiri -- ---
**Author:** ![mvg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mvg/32/98890_2.png) [@mvg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mvg)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 12:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bin-plugin-failing-to-find-org-elasticsearch-plugins-pluginmanager/9910/2 "2012-12-03T12:29:36Z")
Hi Amiri, How did you install ES on your vm box? Also are you sure that '/var/local/elasticsearch/lib/elasticsearch-0.19.11.jar' file exists? Martijn On 1 December 2012 13:28, Amiri Barksdale [amiribarksdale@gmail.com](mailto:amiribarksdale@gmail.com) wrote: > After trying and failing to run elasticsearch/bin/plugin, which would fail > with this: > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > org/elasticsearch/plugins/PluginManager > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginManager > at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321) > at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266) > Could not find the main class: org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginManager. > Program will exit. > > I dug in to see what was being run by echoing the exec line at the end of > elasticsearch/bin/plugin. As a test, I decided to run a stripped down > version of the command, to see whether I could get the usage menu instead of > the error above. Here is the stripped down command: > > /usr/bin/java -Xmx64m -Xms16m -Delasticsearch > -Des.path.home=/var/local/elasticsearch -classpath > "/var/local/elasticsearch/lib/elasticsearch-0.19.11.jar" > org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginManager > > This command works fine on my linux machine, but not in my Mac vm, running > ubuntu 12.04. I cannot figure it out. This gist shows the command and the > output: > > [gist:a2c4ee4682d5ba7ab80d ยท GitHub](https://gist.github.com/a2c4ee4682d5ba7ab80d) > > Amiri > > -- -- Met vriendelijke groet, Martijn van Groningen -- ---
**Author:** ![amiribarksdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@amiribarksdale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/amiribarksdale)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bin-plugin-failing-to-find-org-elasticsearch-plugins-pluginmanager/9910/3 "2012-12-03T17:45:56Z")
On Monday, December 3, 2012 4:29:36 AM UTC-8, Martijn v Groningen wrote: > Hi Amiri, > > How did you install ES on your vm box? Also are you sure that > '/var/local/elasticsearch/lib/elasticsearch-0.19.11.jar' file exists? I installed elasticsearch by downloading the binaries from [http://cloud.github.com/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-0.19.11.tar.gz](http://cloud.github.com/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-0.19.11.tar.gz) and dropping them in /var/local/elasticsearch. The file exists, and the directory contains elasticsearch-0.19.11.jar lucene-analyzers-3.6.1.jar lucene-memory-3.6.1.jar snappy-java-1.0.4.1.jar jna-3.3.0.jar lucene-core-3.6.1.jar lucene-queries-3.6.1.jar log4j-1.2.17.jar lucene-highlighter-3.6.1.jar sigar and that command is only an attempt to force the issue after the normal way of trying to install a plugin failed: /var/local/elasticsearch/bin/plugin -install Aconex/elasticsearch-head Running that command just above produced the same error as at the top of this gist: [https://gist.github.com/cf11a322b31e08d3fc9c](https://gist.github.com/cf11a322b31e08d3fc9c) Amiri -- ---
**Author:** ![Ivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 6:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bin-plugin-failing-to-find-org-elasticsearch-plugins-pluginmanager/9910/4 "2012-12-03T18:58:54Z")
What are the file permissions of the jars? Perhaps you installed as root and are running as a different user. Not sure if a normal user can write into /var/local on a Mac. BTW, you should be using the forked repo mobz/elasticsearch-head. Cheers, Ivan On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Amiri Barksdale [amiribarksdale@gmail.com](mailto:amiribarksdale@gmail.com)wrote: > On Monday, December 3, 2012 4:29:36 AM UTC-8, Martijn v Groningen wrote: > > > Hi Amiri, > > > > How did you install ES on your vm box? Also are you sure that > > '/var/local/elasticsearch/lib/\*\*elasticsearch-0.19.11.jar' file exists? > > I installed elasticsearch by downloading the binaries from > [http://cloud.github.com/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-0.19.11.tar.gzand](http://cloud.github.com/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-0.19.11.tar.gzand) dropping them in /var/local/elasticsearch. > > The file exists, and the directory contains > > elasticsearch-0.19.11.jar > lucene-analyzers-3.6.1.jar > lucene-memory-3.6.1.jar > snappy-java-1.0.4.1.jar > jna-3.3.0.jar > lucene-core-3.6.1.jar > lucene-queries-3.6.1.jar > log4j-1.2.17.jar > lucene-highlighter-3.6.1.jar > sigar > > and that command is only an attempt to force the issue after the normal > way of trying to install a plugin failed: > > /var/local/elasticsearch/bin/plugin -install Aconex/elasticsearch-head > > Running that command just above produced the same error as at the top of > this gist: [https://gist.github.com/cf11a322b31e08d3fc9c](https://gist.github.com/cf11a322b31e08d3fc9c) > > Amiri > > -- -- ---
**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, 3:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bin-plugin-failing-to-find-org-elasticsearch-plugins-pluginmanager/9910/5 "2017-07-06T03:01:46Z")