# Elastic search crashes after start
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-crashes-after-start/169957
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 26, 2019, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-crashes-after-start/169957 "2019-02-26T08:48:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Anmari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anmari)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2019, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-crashes-after-start/169957/1 "2019-02-26T08:48:05Z")
It seems that our server operator installes updates on 22.02 and since 23.02 no new logfils are written.
Wehn trying to start ES it imidiatly crashes again. The elasticsearch.log gives the following hint.:
```
[2019-02-26T08:52:39,614][WARN][o.e.b.ElasticsearchUncaughtExceptionHandler] [] uncaught exception in thread [main]
org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.StartupException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: plugin [ingest-attachment] is incompatible with version [5.6.15]; was designed for version [5.6.14]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:136) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.15.jar:5.6.15]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:123) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.15.jar:5.6.15]
at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:70) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.15.jar:5.6.15]
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:134) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.15.jar:5.6.15]
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.15.jar:5.6.15]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:91) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.15.jar:5.6.15]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:84) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.15.jar:5.6.15]
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: plugin [ingest-attachment] is incompatible with version [5.6.15]; was designed for version [5.6.14]
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginInfo.readFromProperties(PluginInfo.java:146) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.15.jar:5.6.15]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Spawner.spawnNativePluginControllers(Spawner.java:80) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.15.jar:5.6.15]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:168) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.15.jar:5.6.15]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:342) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.15.jar:5.6.15]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:132) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.15.jar:5.6.15]
... 6 more
```
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### Author:  [@Anmari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anmari)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2019, 8:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-crashes-after-start/169957/2 "2019-02-26T08:49:41Z")
Seems to be a version missmatch but how to update ?
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### Author:  [@Anmari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anmari)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2019, 8:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-crashes-after-start/169957/3 "2019-02-26T08:56:57Z")
Documentation how to update Plugins:
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/current/listing-removing-updating.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/current/listing-removing-updating.html)
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### Author:  [@maart](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maart)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2019, 11:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-crashes-after-start/169957/4 "2019-02-26T11:32:44Z")
Hello Anmari,
Your jar file seems to incompitable with your Elasticsearch version. You should use correct files. Check it out;
[https://jar-download.com/artifacts/org.elasticsearch](https://jar-download.com/artifacts/org.elasticsearch)
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### Author:  [@Anmari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anmari)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2019, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-crashes-after-start/169957/5 "2019-02-26T14:15:46Z")
For user who also encaounters this error after an update of elastic search via apt-get.
1. `sudo /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-plugin remove ingest-attachment`
2. `sudo /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-plugin install ingest-attachment`
This will update the plugin an everything will work again.
If you want to download and install by hand use this as source:
[https://jar-download.com/?search\_box=ingest-attachment](https://jar-download.com/?search_box=ingest-attachment)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2019, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-crashes-after-start/169957/6 "2019-03-26T14:15:50Z")
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