# Cant make elasticsearch run on my Mac Snow Leo - too many arguments

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-make-elasticsearch-run-on-my-mac-snow-leo-too-many-arguments/3642>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 8, 2010, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-make-elasticsearch-run-on-my-mac-snow-leo-too-many-arguments/3642 "2010-12-08T09:25:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![MWidman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@MWidman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MWidman)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-make-elasticsearch-run-on-my-mac-snow-leo-too-many-arguments/3642/1 "2010-12-08T09:25:42Z")

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Hello,

I just can't make ElasticSearch start on my mac. I get this error  
message all the time:

./elasticsearch: line 96: [: too many arguments  
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Vault/  
elasticsearch/work/heap  
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:  
Vault.elasticsearch.work.heap  
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)  
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)  
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)  
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)  
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)  
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)

Can someone please help me?

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**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-make-elasticsearch-run-on-my-mac-snow-leo-too-many-arguments/3642/2 "2010-12-08T17:04:00Z")

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How do you start it?  
On Wednesday, December 8, 2010 at 11:25 AM, MWidman wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I just can't make Elasticsearch start on my mac. I get this error  
> message all the time:
> 
> ./elasticsearch: line 96: [: too many arguments  
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Vault/  
> elasticsearch/work/heap  
> Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:  
> Vault.elasticsearch.work.heap  
> at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)  
> at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)  
> at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)  
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)  
> at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)  
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
> 
> Can someone please help me?

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 4:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-make-elasticsearch-run-on-my-mac-snow-leo-too-many-arguments/3642/3 "2017-07-06T04:15:31Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 4:15am UTC