Can not start Elasticsearch 5.5 service

Bumping. We are setting the same problem. Any help would be appreciated. I have tried increasing the Windows Service timeout setting, but no dice. This appears to be an internal ElasticSearch process startup timeout (Elastic.ProcessHosts.Process.StartupException: Could not start process within (00:02:00)). Is there any way to increase this value, or maybe tune my startup so it takes less time? ElasticSearch seems to be getting close to being ready:
[2017-12-12T09:44:20,966][INFO ][o.e.n.Node ] [NORPEWMMON1] initializing ...
[2017-12-12T09:44:21,302][INFO ][o.e.e.NodeEnvironment ] [NORPEWMMON1] using [1] data paths, mounts [[System (\m-part.active.preprod\mms)]], net usable_space [28.7gb], net total_space [139.9gb], spins? [unknown], types [NTFS]
[2017-12-12T09:44:21,303][INFO ][o.e.e.NodeEnvironment ] [NORPEWMMON1] heap size [1.9gb], compressed ordinary object pointers [true]
[2017-12-12T09:45:54,509][INFO ][o.e.n.Node ] [NORPEWMMON1] node name [NORPEWMMON1], node ID [862a0F6ZTvqkXVcIov6yfg]
[2017-12-12T09:45:54,510][INFO ][o.e.n.Node ] [NORPEWMMON1] version[5.5.2], pid[5948], build[b2f0c09/2017-08-14T12:33:14.154Z], OS[Windows Server 2012 R2/6.3/amd64], JVM[Oracle Corporation/Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM/1.8.0_144/25.144-b01]
[2017-12-12T09:45:54,510][INFO ][o.e.n.Node ] [NORPEWMMON1] JVM arguments [-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC, -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75, -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly, -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch, -Xss1m, -Djava.awt.headless=true, -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8, -Djna.nosys=true, -Djdk.io.permissionsUseCanonicalPath=true, -Dio.netty.noUnsafe=true, -Dio.netty.noKeySetOptimization=true, -Dio.netty.recycler.maxCapacityPerThread=0, -Dlog4j.shutdownHookEnabled=false, -Dlog4j2.disable.jmx=true, -Dlog4j.skipJansi=true, -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError, -Xmx2048m, -Xms2048m, -Delasticsearch, -Des.path.home=D:\Mms\ElasticStack\Elasticsearch]
[2017-12-12T09:45:55,951][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService ] [NORPEWMMON1] loaded module [aggs-matrix-stats]
[2017-12-12T09:45:55,951][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService ] [NORPEWMMON1] loaded module [ingest-common]
[2017-12-12T09:45:55,951][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService ] [NORPEWMMON1] loaded module [lang-expression]
[2017-12-12T09:45:55,952][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService ] [NORPEWMMON1] loaded module [lang-groovy]
[2017-12-12T09:45:55,952][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService ] [NORPEWMMON1] loaded module [lang-mustache]
[2017-12-12T09:45:55,952][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService ] [NORPEWMMON1] loaded module [lang-painless]
[2017-12-12T09:45:55,952][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService ] [NORPEWMMON1] loaded module [parent-join]
[2017-12-12T09:45:55,952][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService ] [NORPEWMMON1] loaded module [percolator]
[2017-12-12T09:45:55,952][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService ] [NORPEWMMON1] loaded module [reindex]
[2017-12-12T09:45:55,952][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService ] [NORPEWMMON1] loaded module [transport-netty3]
[2017-12-12T09:45:55,952][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService ] [NORPEWMMON1] loaded module [transport-netty4]
[2017-12-12T09:45:55,953][INFO ][o.e.p.PluginsService ] [NORPEWMMON1] loaded plugin [x-pack]
[2017-12-12T09:45:59,442][DEBUG][o.e.a.ActionModule ] Using REST wrapper from plugin org.elasticsearch.xpack.XPackPlugin
[2017-12-12T09:46:00,306][INFO ][o.e.x.c.h.HttpClient ] [NORPEWMMON1] Using default proxy for http input and slack/hipchat/pagerduty/webhook actions [nemproxy:8080]
[2017-12-12T09:46:01,044][INFO ][o.e.x.m.j.p.l.CppLogMessageHandler] [controller/6072] [Main.cc@128] controller (64 bit): Version 5.5.2 (Build 0d83940bb9d682) Copyright (c) 2017 Elasticsearch BV
[2017-12-12T09:46:01,064][INFO ][o.e.d.DiscoveryModule ] [NORPEWMMON1] using discovery type [zen]