# Elastic unable to start

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-unable-to-start/230677>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 1, 2020, 8:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-unable-to-start/230677 "2020-05-01T08:30:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alexy\_Kouakou](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexy_kouakou/32/45742_2.png) [@Alexy\_Kouakou](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alexy_Kouakou)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2020, 8:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-unable-to-start/230677/1 "2020-05-01T08:30:20Z")

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Hi, Please Help me

My elastic refuses to start. This is the systemctl status elasticsearch.service log

```auto
 ● elasticsearch.service - Elasticsearch
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2020-05-01 08:22:02 UTC; 13s ago
     Docs: http://www.elastic.co
  Process: 19367 ExecStart=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -p ${PID_DIR}/elasticsearch.pid --quiet (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 19367 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
    Tasks: 0
   CGroup: /system.slice/elasticsearch.service

May 01 08:22:02 serverPreformatted text.com elasticsearch[19367]: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:161)
May 01 08:22:02 server.com elasticsearch[19367]: at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareC...va:86)
May 01 08:22:02 server.com elasticsearch[19367]: at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:125)
May 01 08:22:02 server.com elasticsearch[19367]: at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90)
May 01 08:22:02 server.com elasticsearch[19367]: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:126)
May 01 08:22:02 server.com elasticsearch[19367]: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:92)
May 01 08:22:02 server.com systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
May 01 08:22:02 server.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Elasticsearch.
May 01 08:22:02 server.com systemd[1]: Unit elasticsearch.service entered failed state.
May 01 08:22:02 server.com systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service failed.
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**Author:** ![Emanuil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/emanuil/32/36783_2.png) [@Emanuil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Emanuil)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-unable-to-start/230677/2 "2020-05-01T14:07:39Z")

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The Elasticsearch service log is truncated. Can you show the full log?

I _think_ the command for the full log was something like `journalctl -u elasticsearch` but don't take my word for it. Either way this is just saying that startup failed, it doesn't include enough actual details of the failure in the 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 29, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-unable-to-start/230677/3 "2020-05-29T14:07:42Z")

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