# Elasticsearch 7.14 fails to start on Ubuntu 20.04

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-14-fails-to-start-on-ubuntu-20-04/280705>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 7, 2021, 11:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-14-fails-to-start-on-ubuntu-20-04/280705 "2021-08-07T11:13:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![theonlycharithperera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19adc/32.png) [@theonlycharithperera](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theonlycharithperera)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-14-fails-to-start-on-ubuntu-20-04/280705/3 "2021-08-07T11:56:53Z")

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> [@Debian elasticsearch.service: start operation timed out. Terminating](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debian-elasticsearch-service-start-operation-timed-out-terminating/223262):
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> I have a development machine that I use to develop production ready web apps. At first Elasticsearch worked very fine on my local development system, when developing the search of my [Site](https://www.nmmapper.com). I stopped Elasticsearch because the rest of the work didn't need it. But now am working on a new project that requires Elasticsearch but it's not starting. My main development system is Debian 10 fully updated and patched. But when I issue systemctl start elasticsearch I get this Job for elasticsearch.s…

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