# Elastic Upgrade 5.6.16 not starting the service in Centos 7

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-upgrade-5-6-16-not-starting-the-service-in-centos-7/179910>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 7, 2019, 7:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-upgrade-5-6-16-not-starting-the-service-in-centos-7/179910 "2019-05-07T07:37:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![620528](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/13edae/32.png) [@620528](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/620528)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 7:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-upgrade-5-6-16-not-starting-the-service-in-centos-7/179910/1 "2019-05-07T07:37:41Z")

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Recently upgraded elasticsearch from 2.3.1 to 5.6.16 in my dev machine. Java and elastic installation went fine. Now while i am trying to start the service it is not starting the service at all. below is the error message am getting.

● elasticsearch.service - Elasticsearch  
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)  
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2019-05-07 03:22:31 EDT; 12min ago  
Docs: [http://www.elastic.co](http://www.elastic.co)  
Process: 8957 ExecStart=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -p {PID\_DIR}/elasticsearch.pid --quiet -Edefault.path.logs={LOG\_DIR} -Edefault.path.data={DATA\_DIR} -Edefault.path.conf={CONF\_DIR} (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)  
Process: 8955 ExecStartPre=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-systemd-pre-exec (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)  
Main PID: 8957 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

May 07 03:22:31 VFDV-W05CLT10 systemd[1]: Starting Elasticsearch...  
May 07 03:22:31 VFDV-W05CLT10 systemd[1]: Started Elasticsearch.  
May 07 03:22:31 VFDV-W05CLT10 systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE  
May 07 03:22:31 VFDV-W05CLT10 systemd[1]: Unit elasticsearch.service entered failed state.  
May 07 03:22:31 VFDV-W05CLT10 systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service failed.

Can someone please help me on this ?

Providing the elasticsearch.yml config below.

cluster.name: analytics-ws05-5x  
node.name: clientnode01  
node.data: true  
node.master: true  
http.enabled: true  
path.data: /ESDATA  
http.cors.enabled: true # Required for Kopf to connect  
http.cors.allow-origin: "\*" # Required for Kopf to connect  
network.host: 10.99.88.247  
discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["vfdv-devels01:9200"]  
node.max\_local\_storage\_nodes: 1  
discovery.zen.minimum\_master\_nodes: 1  
discovery.zen.ping.timeout: 3s  
discovery.zen.ping.multicast.enabled: false

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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:** [June 4, 2019, 7:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-upgrade-5-6-16-not-starting-the-service-in-centos-7/179910/2 "2019-06-04T07:37:51Z")

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