# Elastic search service is failing after installing the latest version 5.1.1

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-service-is-failing-after-installing-the-latest-version-5-1-1/71164>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 11, 2017, 12:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-service-is-failing-after-installing-the-latest-version-5-1-1/71164 "2017-01-11T00:46:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![dubul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9f8e36/32.png) [@dubul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dubul)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 12:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-service-is-failing-after-installing-the-latest-version-5-1-1/71164/1 "2017-01-11T00:46:07Z")

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![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/9/9f79b1a8bc0349cdbd670f3e12a22ee142481374.png)  
2017-01-10 16:44:18 Commons Daemon procrun stdout initialized  
starts elasticsearch

Option Description

* * *

-E Configure a setting  
-V, --version Prints elasticsearch version information and exits  
-d, --daemonize Starts Elasticsearch in the background  
-h, --help show help  
-p, --pidfile Creates a pid file in the specified path on start  
-q, --quiet Turns off standard ouput/error streams logging in console  
-s, --silent show minimal output  
-v, --verbose show verbose output  
ERROR: Positional arguments not allowed, found [start]

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 1:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-service-is-failing-after-installing-the-latest-version-5-1-1/71164/2 "2017-01-16T01:22:33Z")

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Have you had a look at the ES logs?

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**Author:** ![dubul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9f8e36/32.png) [@dubul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dubul)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 1:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-service-is-failing-after-installing-the-latest-version-5-1-1/71164/3 "2017-01-16T01:34:14Z")

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I have installed the latest version 5.1.2. It's working fine

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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:** [February 13, 2017, 1:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-service-is-failing-after-installing-the-latest-version-5-1-1/71164/4 "2017-02-13T01:34:18Z")

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