# Elastic search service is failing after installing the latest version 5.3.0

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-service-is-failing-after-installing-the-latest-version-5-3-0/82614>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 17, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-service-is-failing-after-installing-the-latest-version-5-3-0/82614 "2017-04-17T19:15:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![jhashman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecd19e/32.png) [@jhashman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jhashman)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-service-is-failing-after-installing-the-latest-version-5-3-0/82614/1 "2017-04-17T19:15:06Z")

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I'm having the same issue that others have reported on Windows. After I install the elasticsearch-service-x64 service using "elasticsearch-service.bat install" and then start the service it will start and then stop. The error below is what is in the logs. Running elasticsearch.bat manually gets elasticsearch up and running but getting the service running would be wonderful.

2017-04.16 10:44:28 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:** ![jkuang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jkuang/32/72637_2.png) [@jkuang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jkuang)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-service-is-failing-after-installing-the-latest-version-5-3-0/82614/2 "2017-04-18T23:17:26Z")

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Can you provide the full command you're running and include the verbose output

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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:** [May 16, 2017, 11:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-service-is-failing-after-installing-the-latest-version-5-3-0/82614/3 "2017-05-16T23:26:42Z")

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