# Debian elasticsearch.service: start operation timed out. Terminating **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 12, 2020, 6:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debian-elasticsearch-service-start-operation-timed-out-terminating/223262 "2020-03-12T06:40:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Joel\_wangolo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joel_wangolo/32/47236_2.png) [@Joel\_wangolo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joel_wangolo)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 6:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debian-elasticsearch-service-start-operation-timed-out-terminating/223262/1 "2020-03-12T06:40:00Z")
I have a development machine that I use to develop production ready web apps. At first Elasticsearch worked very fine on my local development system, when developing the search of my [Site](https://www.nmmapper.com). I stopped Elasticsearch because the rest of the work didn't need it. But now am working on a new project that requires Elasticsearch but it's not starting. My main development system is Debian 10 fully updated and patched. But when I issue `systemctl start elasticsearch` I get this ``` Job for elasticsearch.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. See "systemctl status elasticsearch.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. ``` When I run this `systemctl status elasticsearch.service` I get this ` ● elasticsearch.service - Elasticsearch Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Thu 2020-03-12 09:27:58 EAT; 17s ago Docs: [http://www.elastic.co](http://www.elastic.co) Process: 7593 ExecStart=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -p ${PID\_DIR}/elasticsearch.pid --quiet (code=exited, status=143) Main PID: 7593 (code=exited, status=143) ``` Mar 12 09:26:25 debian systemd[1]: Starting Elasticsearch... Mar 12 09:26:26 debian elasticsearch[7593]: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: Option UseConcMarkSweepGC was deprecated in version 9.0 and will likely> Mar 12 09:27:55 debian systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: start operation timed out. Terminating. Mar 12 09:27:58 debian systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. Mar 12 09:27:58 debian systemd[1]: Failed to start Elasticsearch. ``` ` I have tried every possible solution including `TimeoutStopSec=900` But it's not working SPECs Debian: 10 RAM: 4gb ---
**Author:** ![Baris\_Kiremitci](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/baris_kiremitci/32/64442_2.png) [@Baris\_Kiremitci](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Baris_Kiremitci)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debian-elasticsearch-service-start-operation-timed-out-terminating/223262/2 "2020-03-13T20:55:24Z")
same error, with ram 64 gb debian ---
**Author:** ![jeroen1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jeroen1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jeroen1)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 10:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debian-elasticsearch-service-start-operation-timed-out-terminating/223262/3 "2020-03-18T10:53:01Z")
Same here, after manual upgrade (dpkg -i) to 7.6.1 in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: ```auto ● elasticsearch.service - Elasticsearch Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled) Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service.d └─elasticsearch.conf Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Wed 2020-03-18 11:49:58 CET; 17s ago Docs: http://www.elastic.co Process: 25987 ExecStart=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -p ${PID_DIR}/elasticsearch.pid --quiet (code=killed, signal=TERM) Main PID: 25987 (code=killed, signal=TERM) Mar 18 11:48:26 systemd[1]: Starting Elasticsearch... Mar 18 11:49:56 systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating. Mar 18 11:49:58 systemd[1]: Failed to start Elasticsearch. Mar 18 11:49:58 systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Unit entered failed state. Mar 18 11:49:58 systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. ``` ---
**Author:** ![rameshkr1994](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rameshkr1994/32/59029_2.png) [@rameshkr1994](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rameshkr1994)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debian-elasticsearch-service-start-operation-timed-out-terminating/223262/4 "2020-03-18T12:05:55Z")
Hi @jeroen1 , @Baris_Kiremitci, @Joel_wangolo ````which Elasticsearch version you all are using?``` > please also make sure about java compatibility with Elasticsearch version . Thanks HadoopHelp ---
**Author:** ![Baris\_Kiremitci](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/baris_kiremitci/32/64442_2.png) [@Baris\_Kiremitci](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Baris_Kiremitci)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debian-elasticsearch-service-start-operation-timed-out-terminating/223262/5 "2020-03-18T12:33:25Z")
I found solution from [https://blog.sleeplessbeastie.eu/2020/02/29/how-to-prevent-systemd-service-start-operation-from-timing-out/](https://blog.sleeplessbeastie.eu/2020/02/29/how-to-prevent-systemd-service-start-operation-from-timing-out/) Thanks, Baris Kiremitci ---
**Author:** ![jeroen1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jeroen1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jeroen1)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 3:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debian-elasticsearch-service-start-operation-timed-out-terminating/223262/6 "2020-03-18T15:50:30Z")
Solution mentioned in post of Baris\_Kiremitci works for me (timeout from 90 to 180s). Open question: what's the reason that this issues occurs in 7.6.1? I'm running a static dataset on the same box this dataset was already running: so no data nor hardware changes. Only change: update to ES 7.6.1. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2020, 3:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debian-elasticsearch-service-start-operation-timed-out-terminating/223262/7 "2020-04-15T15:50:33Z")
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