# Elastic search doesn't start **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [April 27, 2017, 6:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-doesnt-start/83801 "2017-04-27T06:50:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![raghuvarma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@raghuvarma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/raghuvarma)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 6:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-doesnt-start/83801/1 "2017-04-27T06:50:02Z")
i have Elasticsearch 2.2 in my instance. It was working fine. recently i found the service stoped. So tried restarting, but it's stoping again by throughing below log. can any one help me here plz? * * * [2017-04-27 06:05:08,495][INFO][node] [Graydon Creed] version[2.4.4], pid[18868], build[fcbb46d/2017-01-03T11:33:16Z] [2017-04-27 06:05:08,496][INFO][node] [Graydon Creed] initializing ... [2017-04-27 06:05:08,895][INFO][plugins] [Graydon Creed] modules [reindex, lang-expression, lang-groovy], plugins [], sites [] [2017-04-27 06:05:08,912][INFO][env] [Graydon Creed] using [1] data paths, mounts [[/ (/dev/sda1)]], net usable\_space [23.7gb], net total\_space [28.8gb], spins? [possibly], types [ext4] [2017-04-27 06:05:08,912][INFO][env] [Graydon Creed] heap size [1007.3mb], compressed ordinary object pointers [true] [2017-04-27 06:05:10,402][INFO][node] [Graydon Creed] initialized [2017-04-27 06:05:10,402][INFO][node] [Graydon Creed] starting ... [2017-04-27 06:05:10,498][ERROR][bootstrap] [Graydon Creed] Exception BindTransportException[Failed to bind to [9300-9400]]; nested: ChannelException[Failed to bind to: localhost/52.176.50.111:9400]; nested: BindException[Cannot assign requested address]; at org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.NettyTransport.bindToPort(NettyTransport.java:489) at org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.NettyTransport.bindServerBootstrap(NettyTransport.java:451) at org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.NettyTransport.doStart(NettyTransport.java:332) at org.elasticsearch.common.component.AbstractLifecycleComponent.start(AbstractLifecycleComponent.java:68) at org.elasticsearch.transport.TransportService.doStart(TransportService.java:182) at org.elasticsearch.common.component.AbstractLifecycleComponent.start(AbstractLifecycleComponent.java:68) at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.start(Node.java:278) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:222) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:288) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:45) Caused by: org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelException: Failed to bind to: localhost/52.176.50.111:9400 at org.jboss.netty.bootstrap.ServerBootstrap.bind(ServerBootstrap.java:272) at org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.NettyTransport$1.onPortNumber(NettyTransport.java:471) at org.elasticsearch.common.transport.PortsRange.iterate(PortsRange.java:69) at org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.NettyTransport.bindToPort(NettyTransport.java:467) ... 9 more Caused by: java.net.BindException: Cannot assign requested address at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind0(Native Method) at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:433) at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:425) at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.bind(ServerSocketChannelImpl.java:223) at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketAdaptor.bind(ServerSocketAdaptor.java:74) at org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioServerBoss$RegisterTask.run(NioServerBoss.java:193) at org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.AbstractNioSelector.processTaskQueue(AbstractNioSelector.java:391) at org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.AbstractNioSelector.run(AbstractNioSelector.java:315) at org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioServerBoss.run(NioServerBoss.java:42) at org.jboss.netty.util.ThreadRenamingRunnable.run(ThreadRenamingRunnable.java:108) at org.jboss.netty.util.internal.DeadLockProofWorker$1.run(DeadLockProofWorker.java:42) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [2017-04-27 06:05:10,508][INFO][node] [Graydon Creed] stopping ... [2017-04-27 06:05:10,509][INFO][node] [Graydon Creed] stopped [2017-04-27 06:05:10,509][INFO][node] [Graydon Creed] closing ... [2017-04-27 06:05:10,513][INFO][node] [Graydon Creed] closed * * * Also can any one suggest what versions of elasticsearch, kibana and logstash I can work collectively in elk stack? ---
**Author:** ![pablosan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@pablosan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pablosan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 6:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-doesnt-start/83801/2 "2017-04-27T06:55:53Z")
Hi, have you probably changed your ip address? > [@raghuvarma](#): > > Failed to bind to: localhost/52.176.50.111:9400 Check your elasticsearch.yml and play with the config until you get it right If you have the chance move to ELK 5.3. ---
**Author:** ![raghuvarma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@raghuvarma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/raghuvarma)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 7:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-doesnt-start/83801/3 "2017-04-27T07:11:07Z")
@Pablo thanks for you swift reply i have just added below line in the yml file. apart from this everything was commented and was working from last 2 weeks. network.host: localhost ---
**Author:** ![pablosan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@pablosan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pablosan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-doesnt-start/83801/4 "2017-04-27T09:49:03Z")
no problem @raghuvarma From the documentation: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-network.html#common-network-settings](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-network.html#common-network-settings) you can probably use _local_ or just comment it out to test. Also check your /etc/hosts to see where localhost is poiting to. ---
**Author:** ![raghuvarma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@raghuvarma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/raghuvarma)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 12:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-doesnt-start/83801/5 "2017-04-27T12:21:09Z")
@pablosan Meanwhile I was trying to uninstall elasticsearch and reinstall it. when i remove it with below command it was showing following error. $ apt-get --purge autoremove elasticsearch Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: elasticsearch\* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded. After this operation, 30.5 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 37152 files and directories currently installed.) Removing elasticsearch (2.4.5) ... Stopping elasticsearch service...Failed to issue method call: Unit elasticsearch.service not loaded. dpkg: error processing package elasticsearch (--purge): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 5 ### NOT starting on installation, please execute the following statements to configure elasticsearch service to start automatically using systemd sudo systemctl daemon-reload sudo systemctl enable elasticsearch.service ### You can start elasticsearch service by executing sudo systemctl start elasticsearch.service **Errors were encountered while processing:** \*\* elasticsearch\*\* **E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)** So I removed below dir's with "rm -rf" cmd /etc/elasticsearch /usr/share/elasticsearch After that it's not getting reinstalled properly along with elasticsearch.yaml file ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 12:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-doesnt-start/83801/6 "2017-05-25T12:30:16Z")
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