# Elasticsearch 2.3.3 exception error

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-3-3-exception-error/52052>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 7, 2016, 10:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-3-3-exception-error/52052 "2016-06-07T10:29:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![xon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/838e76/32.png) [@xon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xon)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 10:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-3-3-exception-error/52052/1 "2016-06-07T10:29:04Z")

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I downloaded the latest elasticsearch version. I have installed java8.

I have configured successfully so far kibana/logstash but I cant get elasticsearch to work.

`root@debian:~# sudo -u elasticsearch /opt/elasticsearch-2.3.3/bin/elasticsearch -d -p /var/run/elasticsearch.pid --path.conf=/etc/elasticsearch --default.path.home=/usr/share/elasticsearch --default.path.logs=/var/log/elasticsearch --default.path.data=/var/lib/elasticsearch --default.path.work=/tmp/el asticsearch root@debian:~# Exception in thread "main" java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /var/run/elasticsearch.pid at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:84) at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102) at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:107) at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newByteChannel(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:214) at java.nio.file.spi.FileSystemProvider.newOutputStream(FileSystemProvider.java:434) at java.nio.file.Files.newOutputStream(Files.java:216) at org.elasticsearch.common.PidFile.create(PidFile.java:76) at org.elasticsearch.common.PidFile.create(PidFile.java:55) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:247) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:35)`

i have also chown -R the /var/run/elasticsearch and the /var/log/elasticsearch

I suspect this a permission issue

Any thoughts?

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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:** [June 7, 2016, 9:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-3-3-exception-error/52052/2 "2016-06-07T21:45:51Z")

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If you are on debian, why not use the apt repo/deb package?

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**Author:** ![xon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/838e76/32.png) [@xon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xon)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 10:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-3-3-exception-error/52052/3 "2016-06-07T22:25:56Z")

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This is what i did and eventually worked.

Cheers

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-3-3-exception-error/52052/4 "2017-07-05T22:45:29Z")

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