Cannot Open Shared Object File

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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I am trying to start Elasticsearch on a Linux machine and keep getting the response:

/opt/cust/suite/javabin/jre/bin/java: error while loading shared libraries: libjli.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

When I locate libjli.so it shows it:

[serv_act@test1 bin]$ locate libjli.so
/opt/cust/suite/javabin/jre/lib/amd64/libjli.so
/opt/cust/suite/javabin/jre/lib/amd64/jli/libjli.so
/opt/cust/suite/javabin/jre32/lib/i386/jli/libjli.so

Java home is set as well:

[serv_act@test1 bin]$ printenv JAVA_HOME
/opt/cust/suite/javabin/jre
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Does anyone from the Elastic team have any ideas?

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Sounds like a bad installation of Java, may be...
Try to install a JDK instead of JRE in case it helps.

If you don't succeed, please share which exact OS and version you are using.

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[osiserv_act@test1 ~]$ uname -a
Linux test1 2.6.32-696.10.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Sep 10 11:10:44 EDT 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I previously had Elasticsearch running on the server with the Java version we have installed. The server was recently restarted and elasticsearch and elasticsearch-env no longer run. Both of them return with the same issue "error while loading shared libraries".

I am thinking that maybe there is environment variables that have been changed without my knowledge. Could this be possible? If so, what should they look like?

Thanks!

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May be. I don't remember.

But now the question seems a bit quite different. You are not just starting Elasticsearch on a Linux machine but more you upgraded from version X to version Y and that does not work anymore. Am I right saying that?

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No the version was not updated. The server was accidentally hard shut down while running the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana). Upon powering it back up Elasticsearch produces the error message

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I see.

I have no idea. How did you install elasticsearch the first time? Which package did you choose?
Which version it is?

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I believe I downloaded the .tar package. I extracted the files to a folder and run the elasticsearch file from the bin folder. I never actually install it as a service for our use case.

We are using version Elastic Stack 6.2.3

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That does not sound like a good way to install elasticsearch for something else than development.

May be do it again and try the 6.2.4 (which I don't believe will change anything).

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We are still in the development stage of this project. If I may ask, why is this a bad idea?

Also, I upgraded to 6.2.4 and I am still running into the same issue.

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Because you probably would like to run it as a service.
So install it with all the builtin startup/stop scripts.
Deb or rpm depending on your system.

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I am trying to implement it into my software tree and keep all of the Elastic stack files in one location instead of having them install to predetermined locations.

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Can you then just do a simple test?

Download the zip version from https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-6.2.4.zip
Unzip it anywhere in a tmp dir
Then just run

bin/elasticsearch
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Just ran it and still have the same issue

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Can you run:

/opt/cust/suite/javabin/jre/java -version
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After talking with someone internal we were able to solve the problem. This is how we did it:

  1. Added /opt/cust/suite/javabin/jre/lib/amd64, where libjli.so is located, to /etc/ld.so.conf.d/java.conf
  2. Ran the command /sbin/ldconfig

@dadoonet You were correct that it was a broken Java. It must have broken in the restart/hard shutdown. Thank you for your help I appreciate it!

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