# Elastic search doesnot bootstrap with 8.5.0

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-doesnot-bootstrap-with-8-5-0/318993>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 15, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-doesnot-bootstrap-with-8-5-0/318993 "2022-11-15T18:33:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![smiley\_tamy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/smiley_tamy/32/113375_2.png) [@smiley\_tamy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/smiley_tamy)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-doesnot-bootstrap-with-8-5-0/318993/1 "2022-11-15T18:33:25Z")

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I have Elasticsearch service with version 8.5.0  
When I try to invoke Elasticsearch.main from Java class, the following exception is thrown  
Can you please help me to resolve that

```auto
Invoked call - Elasticsearch.main(args)

java.io.EOFException
	at org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.InputStreamStreamInput.readByte(InputStreamStreamInput.java:47)
	at org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput.readBoolean(StreamInput.java:549)
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.ServerArgs.<init>(ServerArgs.java:60)
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.initPhase1(Elasticsearch.java:117)
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:62)

```

The same works for 8.2 version.  
Are there any changes to be adapted?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 6:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-doesnot-bootstrap-with-8-5-0/318993/2 "2022-11-16T06:52:31Z")

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Welcome!

What are you trying to do?  
Elasticsearch is not built to be launched from another application. Could you clarify what are you trying to solve?

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**Author:** ![smiley\_tamy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/smiley_tamy/32/113375_2.png) [@smiley\_tamy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/smiley_tamy)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 6:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-doesnot-bootstrap-with-8-5-0/318993/3 "2022-11-16T06:57:42Z")

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I have Elasticsearch service running with 8.2 version. I start it from ant file using pjava  
Now when I upgrade the version of Elasticsearch to 8.5.0, I get the Exception.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 9:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-doesnot-bootstrap-with-8-5-0/318993/4 "2022-11-16T09:20:37Z")

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This answers "how" but not "why".

Why do you want to do this?

And anyway, you should provide all details about how you are doing it and the full logs.

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**Author:** ![Anki\_Reddy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/anki_reddy/32/100380_2.png) [@Anki\_Reddy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anki_Reddy)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2022, 9:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-doesnot-bootstrap-with-8-5-0/318993/5 "2022-11-22T21:36:09Z")

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Even I have a similar requirement to start the elasticsearch from ant file to control the life cycle of the elasticsearch programatically.

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**Author:** ![Anki\_Reddy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/anki_reddy/32/100380_2.png) [@Anki\_Reddy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anki_Reddy)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2022, 9:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-doesnot-bootstrap-with-8-5-0/318993/6 "2022-11-22T21:38:38Z")

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> [@smiley\_tamy](#):
>
> ```auto
> Invoked call - Elasticsearch.main(args)
> 
> java.io.EOFException
> 
> ```

Exactly EOFException is what we see when we try to invoke main method of the elasticsearch

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2022, 3:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-doesnot-bootstrap-with-8-5-0/318993/7 "2022-11-23T03:07:08Z")

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Any chance you can share a minimalistic example which helps to reproduce your problem?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 3:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-doesnot-bootstrap-with-8-5-0/318993/8 "2022-12-21T03:08:00Z")

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