Can't start elasticsearch with Ubuntu 16.04

No logs are produced by the service

root@rubix2:/usr/share/elasticsearch# ls -l logs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Dec 24 00:15 logs -> /var/log/elasticsearch

root@rubix2:/usr/share/elasticsearch# cd /var/log/elasticsearch/
root@rubix2:/var/log/elasticsearch# rm *
root@rubix2:/var/log/elasticsearch# ls
root@rubix2:/var/log/elasticsearch# service elasticsearch start
root@rubix2:/var/log/elasticsearch# ls
root@rubix2:/var/log/elasticsearch# service elasticsearch status
● elasticsearch.service - LSB: Starts elasticsearch
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/elasticsearch; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Thu 2016-04-28 16:03:54 EDT; 32min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 1192 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/elasticsearch start (code=exited, status=0
    Tasks: 0 (limit: 512)

Apr 28 16:03:54 rubix2 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Starts elasticsearch...
Apr 28 16:03:54 rubix2 systemd[1]: Started LSB: Starts elasticsearch.
Apr 28 16:36:19 rubix2 systemd[1]: Started LSB: Starts elasticsearch.
root@rubix2:/var/log/elasticsearch# ls
root@rubix2:/var/log/elasticsearch#