# Can't launch Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-launch-elasticsearch/267168>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 14, 2021, 1:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-launch-elasticsearch/267168 "2021-03-14T01:20:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![PaulGureghian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba8739/32.png) [@PaulGureghian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PaulGureghian)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 1:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-launch-elasticsearch/267168/1 "2021-03-14T01:20:56Z")

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My JAVA\_HOME code in .profile

export JAVA\_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.11.0-openjdk-amd64  
export PATH=$JAVA\_HOME/bin:$PATH

And when I try to launch:

[elasticsearch-7.11.1] ./bin/elasticsearch Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: starting java failed with [1] output: [0.001s][error][logging] Error opening log file 'logs/gc.log': Permission denied [0.001s][error][logging] Initialization of output 'file=logs/gc.log' using options 'filecount=32,filesize=64m' failed. error: Could not rename log file 'logs/gc.log' to 'logs/gc.log.01' (Permission denied). Invalid -Xlog option '-Xlog:gc\*,gc+age=trace,safepoint:file=logs/gc.log:utctime,pid,tags:filecount=32,filesize=64m', see error log for details. Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine. Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit. at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmOption.flagsFinal(JvmOption.java:119) at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmOption.findFinalOptions(JvmOption.java:81) at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmErgonomics.choose(JvmErgonomics.java:38) at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmOptionsParser.jvmOptions(JvmOptionsParser.java:135) at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmOptionsParser.main(JvmOptionsParser.java:86) [elasticsearch-7.11.1]

I did sudo chmod 777 on the Java home directory.

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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:** [April 11, 2021, 1:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-launch-elasticsearch/267168/2 "2021-04-11T01:21:54Z")

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