# Elasticsearch 7.2.0. homebrew install on mac java error on startup fail
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-2-0-homebrew-install-on-mac-java-error-on-startup-fail/192760
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 29, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-2-0-homebrew-install-on-mac-java-error-on-startup-fail/192760 "2019-07-29T18:36:12Z")
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### Author:  [@ferenc0521](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ferenc0521)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-2-0-homebrew-install-on-mac-java-error-on-startup-fail/192760/1 "2019-07-29T18:36:12Z")
> $ elasticsearch
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: starting java failed with [1]
output:
[0.002s][error][logging] Error opening log file 'logs/gc.log': No such file or directory
[0.002s][error][logging] Initialization of output 'file=logs/gc.log' using options 'filecount=32,filesize=64m' failed.
error:
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: Option UseConcMarkSweepGC was deprecated in version 9.0 and will likely be removed in a future release.
Invalid -Xlog option '-Xlog:gc\*,gc+age=trace,safepoint:file=logs/gc.log:utctime,pid,tags:filecount=32,filesize=64m', see error log for details.
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmErgonomics.flagsFinal(JvmErgonomics.java:111)
at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmErgonomics.finalJvmOptions(JvmErgonomics.java:79)
at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmErgonomics.choose(JvmErgonomics.java:57)
at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmOptionsParser.main(JvmOptionsParser.java:89)
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### Author:  [@rjernst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rjernst)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-2-0-homebrew-install-on-mac-java-error-on-startup-fail/192760/2 "2019-07-29T19:30:06Z")
I'm not able to reproduce this locally. Could you please provide some more information about your environment? In particular, whether you have JAVA\_HOME set (and if so what version of java), as well as your MacOS version?
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### Author:  [@ferenc0521](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ferenc0521)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2019, 7:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-2-0-homebrew-install-on-mac-java-error-on-startup-fail/192760/3 "2019-07-29T19:59:20Z")
It is MacOS Mojave 10.14.3
$ echo $JAVA\_HOME
/usr/bin/java
$ java -version
java version "1.8.0\_192"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0\_192-b12)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.192-b12, mixed mode)
But the interesting thing is that the error seems to indicate OpenJDK:
> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: Option UseConcMarkSweepGC was deprecated in version 9.0 and will likely be removed in a future release.
> Invalid -Xlog option '-Xlog:gc\*,gc+age=trace,safepoint:file=logs/gc.log:utctime,pid,tags:filecount=32,filesize=64m', see error log for details.
[0.002s][error][logging] Error opening log file 'logs/gc.log': No such file or directory
seems to indicate missing logs folder somewhere
I followed
[Announcing the official Elastic Homebrew tap for macOS | Elastic Blog](https://www.elastic.co/blog/official-elastic-homebrew-tap-package-manager-macos),
Installed with:
brew tap elastic/tap
brew install elasticsearch-full
According to the recipe, this should install elasticsearch into:
/usr/local/Cellar/elasticsearch-full/7.2.0/
and true, there is only bin and libexec directories there.
Should the logs directory be here?
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### Author:  [@ferenc0521](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ferenc0521)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2019, 9:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-2-0-homebrew-install-on-mac-java-error-on-startup-fail/192760/4 "2019-07-29T21:09:29Z")
so, I got it started, but still hack
export JAVA\_HOME=/usr/bin/java elasticsearch
could not find java in JAVA\_HOME or bundled at /usr/bin/java/bin/java
peeling it down:
$export JAVA\_HOME=/usr . (somewhat unusual, but works)
$ elasticsearch
Unable to find a $JAVA\_HOME at "/usr", continuing with system-provided Java...
future versions of Elasticsearch will require Java 11; your Java version from [/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0\_192.jdk/Contents/Home/jre] does not meet this requirement
Unable to find a $JAVA\_HOME at "/usr", continuing with system-provided Java...
Unable to find a $JAVA\_HOME at "/usr", continuing with system-provided Java...
Unable to find a $JAVA\_HOME at "/usr", continuing with system-provided Java...
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: Cannot open file logs/gc.log due to No such file or directory
[2019-07-29T13:26:54,308][WARN][o.e.c.l.LogConfigurator] [flazar-mac] Some logging configurations have %marker but don't have %node\_name. We will automatically add %node\_name to the pattern to ease the migration for users who customize log4j2.properties but will stop this behavior in 7.0. You should manually replace `%node_name` with `[%node_name]%marker` in these locations:
/usr/local/etc/elasticsearch/log4j2.properties
...
So, the brew install
- has JVM options incompatible with the embedded (OpenJDK) VM
- missing creating the the logs folder (but that might be ok, it might have been created at first run.
- elasticsearch is checking for java in the $JAVA\_HOME/bin/java. but when it starts it is looking in the $JAVA\_HOME, and when it doesn't find it, goes for the "system provided"
- FYI /usr/bin/java is a link to /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Commands/java, so $JAVA\_HOME should be /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/, except that it doesn't have a bin/java, it has Commands/java
So there is no 'good' $JAVA\_HOME spec, only one that gets you by...
unless I'm missing something....
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### Author:  [@unilynx](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/unilynx)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2019, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-2-0-homebrew-install-on-mac-java-error-on-startup-fail/192760/5 "2019-08-12T08:59:41Z")
I hit a similar issue with -Xlog, brew and Elasticsearch 7.3. Removing lines referring to -Xlog from /usr/local/etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options resolved it.
It looks like that file persisted from earlier elasticsearch installs (6.x?) and was now incompatible with 7.3, so I just uninstalled ES7.3, removed /usr/local/etc/elasticsearch completely and reinstalled ES7.3 to get a fresh start.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2019, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-2-0-homebrew-install-on-mac-java-error-on-startup-fail/192760/6 "2019-09-09T09:00:01Z")
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