# CentOS 7 unable to start elastic search searcive **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 15, 2021, 11:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/centos-7-unable-to-start-elastic-search-searcive/278770 "2021-07-15T11:12:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rdewan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rdewan/32/91664_2.png) [@rdewan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rdewan)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 11:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/centos-7-unable-to-start-elastic-search-searcive/278770/1 "2021-07-15T11:12:56Z")
```auto ● elasticsearch.service - Elasticsearch Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2021-07-15 10:57:58 UTC; 13min ago Docs: https://www.elastic.co Main PID: 14084 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Jul 15 10:57:57 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd-entrypoint[14084]: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:150) Jul 15 10:57:57 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd-entrypoint[14084]: at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:75) Jul 15 10:57:57 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd-entrypoint[14084]: at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:116) Jul 15 10:57:57 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd-entrypoint[14084]: at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:79) Jul 15 10:57:57 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd-entrypoint[14084]: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:115) Jul 15 10:57:57 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd-entrypoint[14084]: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:81) Jul 15 10:57:58 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Jul 15 10:57:58 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Elasticsearch. Jul 15 10:57:58 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd[1]: Unit elasticsearch.service entered failed state. Jul 15 10:57:58 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service failed. ``` **journalctl -xe** ```auto Jul 15 11:13:39 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd[1]: Starting Elasticsearch... -- Subject: Unit elasticsearch.service has begun start-up -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit elasticsearch.service has begun starting up. Jul 15 11:13:55 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd-entrypoint[15961]: fatal error in thread [main], exiting Jul 15 11:13:55 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd-entrypoint[15961]: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.sun.jna.Native Jul 15 11:13:55 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd-entrypoint[15961]: at org.elasticsearch.systemd.Libsystemd.lambda$static$0(Libsystemd.java:23) Jul 15 11:13:55 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd-entrypoint[15961]: at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:312) Jul 15 11:13:55 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd-entrypoint[15961]: at org.elasticsearch.systemd.Libsystemd.(Libsystemd.java:22) Jul 15 11:13:55 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd-entrypoint[15961]: at org.elasticsearch.systemd.SystemdPlugin.sd_notify(SystemdPlugin.java:115) Jul 15 11:13:55 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd-entrypoint[15961]: at org.elasticsearch.systemd.SystemdPlugin.onNodeStarted(SystemdPlugin.java:126) Jul 15 11:13:55 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd-entrypoint[15961]: at java.base/java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1511) Jul 15 11:13:55 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd-entrypoint[15961]: at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.start(Node.java:955) Jul 15 11:13:55 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd-entrypoint[15961]: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:311) Jul 15 11:13:55 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd-entrypoint[15961]: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:406) Jul 15 11:13:55 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd-entrypoint[15961]: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:159) Jul 15 11:13:55 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd-entrypoint[15961]: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:150) Jul 15 11:13:55 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd-entrypoint[15961]: at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:75) Jul 15 11:13:55 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd-entrypoint[15961]: at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:116) Jul 15 11:13:55 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd-entrypoint[15961]: at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:79) Jul 15 11:13:55 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd-entrypoint[15961]: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:115) Jul 15 11:13:55 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd-entrypoint[15961]: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:81) Jul 15 11:13:55 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Jul 15 11:13:55 13-228-192-54.cprapid.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Elasticsearch. -- Subject: Unit elasticsearch.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit elasticsearch.service has failed. ``` ---
**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 12:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/centos-7-unable-to-start-elastic-search-searcive/278770/2 "2021-07-15T12:21:32Z")
are there more logs you can share? Please do so. Also, do you have a custom Java version installed? Which Elasticsearch version? Which Linux distribution is this? Please take your time to write a proper description instead of just pasting error messages. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![rdewan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rdewan/32/91664_2.png) [@rdewan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rdewan)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/centos-7-unable-to-start-elastic-search-searcive/278770/3 "2021-07-29T13:25:39Z")
@spinscale thank you its working now it was my temp directory security setting. After assigning new temp Dir its working fine ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/centos-7-unable-to-start-elastic-search-searcive/278770/4 "2021-08-26T13:25:58Z")
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