# Can't start elasticsearch with Ubuntu 16.04

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-start-elasticsearch-with-ubuntu-16-04/48730
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 28, 2016, 8:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-start-elasticsearch-with-ubuntu-16-04/48730 "2016-04-28T20:22:43Z")
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### Author: ![eff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/db5fbb/32.png) [@eff](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eff)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2016, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-start-elasticsearch-with-ubuntu-16-04/48730/8 "2016-05-26T08:34:31Z")

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The int script does work, but only after you enable it in systemd (in disabled/bad state it doesn't use the sysv wrapper).

> root@xenial-sandbox:~# systemctl enable elasticsearch  
> elasticsearch.service is not a native service, redirecting to systemd-sysv-install  
> Executing /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable elasticsearch  
> insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (empty) of script `elasticsearch' overrides LSB defaults (2 3 4 5). insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 2 3 4 5 6) of script `elasticsearch' overrides LSB defaults (0 1 6).  
> root@xenial-sandbox:~# systemctl start elasticsearch  
> root@xenial-sandbox:~# systemctl status elasticsearch  
> ● elasticsearch.service - LSB: Starts elasticsearch  
> Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/elasticsearch; bad; vendor preset: enabled)  
> Active: active (running) since Thu 2016-05-26 10:26:36 CEST; 5s ago  
> Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)  
> Process: 1528 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/elasticsearch start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)  
> Tasks: 29 (limit: 512)  
> Memory: 213.0M  
> CPU: 4.960s  
> CGroup: /system.slice/elasticsearch.service  
> └─1560 /usr/bin/java -Xms256m -Xmx1g -Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75 -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMe

Edit: the 1.7.3 init script refuses to work, i copied the one from the 2.3.1 package, which does.  
Edit2: just upgraded systemd to 229-4ubuntu6 and now both init scripts are "broken".

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