# Curator not starting up
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-not-starting-up/140415
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 18, 2018, 12:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-not-starting-up/140415 "2018-07-18T00:07:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@ceekay](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ceekay)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2018, 12:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-not-starting-up/140415/1 "2018-07-18T00:07:44Z")
I have a system here that used to have a pip-installed Curator running on it.
Since pip-uninstalling the old version and installing Curator 5.5.4 from the Elastic apt repo, I can't get it to do anything.
Running /usr/bin/curator from the cmdline with no arguments just exits after a second or two. Nothing is logged - in fact it seems to be ignoring curator.yml because it doesn't matter if it's present or not. There is no cmdline output - not even the warning that `action_file` is missing, which you'd expect when starting it with no args.
I have a similar machine running the same version of Ubuntu server and has the same version of Curator installed, and that one is fine. I really can't see any difference between the two, but I suspect some version of some library has been left over from the pip installed version.
I've tried to strace both processes and diff the results, but I really can't see anything obvious (although there are differences).
I've spent ages on this and have no idea where to look from here. Help please?
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### Author:  [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2018, 1:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-not-starting-up/140415/2 "2018-07-18T01:44:18Z")
I literally cannot replicate this: [https://github.com/elastic/curator/issues/1243](https://github.com/elastic/curator/issues/1243)
It does seem tied to RHEL/CentOS. Please help train age the issue in the GitHub issue.
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### Author:  [@ceekay](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ceekay)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2018, 2:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-not-starting-up/140415/3 "2018-07-18T02:02:21Z")
I've updated the issue, but note this is Ubuntu, not CentOS in my case.
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### Author:  [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2018, 4:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-not-starting-up/140415/4 "2018-07-18T04:53:01Z")
I've never had that happen in Ubuntu. Which version are you using?
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### Author:  [@ceekay](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ceekay)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2018, 8:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-not-starting-up/140415/5 "2018-07-18T08:07:30Z")
16.04.4
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### Author:  [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2018, 3:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-not-starting-up/140415/6 "2018-07-18T15:12:05Z")
Are you certain you didn't accidentally install the Debian 9 version of the package?
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### Author:  [@ceekay](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ceekay)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2018, 11:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-not-starting-up/140415/7 "2018-07-18T23:01:50Z")
`deb http://packages.elastic.co/curator/5/debian stable main`
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 11:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-not-starting-up/140415/8 "2018-08-15T23:01:51Z")
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