We have previously set up ELKStack and it has worked without error for several weeks but since yesterday we cannot start ElasticSearch. Logstash, Filebeat and Kibana works like they should. But when we try to start ES we get an instant error saying "\Common was unexpected at this time." in the cmd …

Cannot start ElasticSearch

No_Executable May 2, 2018, 7:25am 4

It was the latest Java update that caused the issue. Reverted to older version and it worked, hope for a fix.

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