# Elasticsearch 8.1 fail to start

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-1-fail-to-start/299524>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 12, 2022, 1:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-1-fail-to-start/299524 "2022-03-12T13:52:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![mayayisim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@mayayisim](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mayayisim)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2022, 1:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-1-fail-to-start/299524/1 "2022-03-12T13:52:05Z")

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Good day

Please assist with Elasticsearch failing to start, I checked the logs and its complaining about access denied on /var/run/Elasticsearch. I then created the path and now it's complaining about the Elasticsearch.pid. How do you create this file and what content does it contain

[2022-03-12T15:28:48,283][WARN][stderr] [VPCELS001] Exception in thread "main" org.Elasticsearch.bootstrap.BootstrapException: java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /var/run/Elasticsearch/Elasticsearch.pid  
[2022-03-12T15:28:48,294][WARN][stderr] [VPCELS001] Likely root cause: java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /var/run/Elasticsearch/Elasticsearch.pid  
[2022-03-12T15:28:48,294][WARN][stderr] [VPCELS001] at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:90)  
[2022-03-12T15:28:48,295][WARN][stderr] [VPCELS001] at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:106)  
[2022-03-12T15:28:48,295][WARN][stderr] [VPCELS001] at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:111)  
[2022-03-12T15:28:48,296][WARN][stderr] [VPCELS001] at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newByteChannel(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:218)  
[2022-03-12T15:28:48,296][WARN][stderr] [VPCELS001] at java.base/java.nio.file.spi.FileSystemProvider.newOutputStream(FileSystemProvider.java:484)  
[2022-03-12T15:28:48,297][WARN][stderr] [VPCELS001] at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.newOutputStream(Files.java:228)  
[2022-03-12T15:28:48,297][WARN][stderr] [VPCELS001] at org.Elasticsearch.common.PidFile.create(PidFile.java:65)  
[2022-03-12T15:28:48,297][WARN][stderr] [VPCELS001] at org.Elasticsearch.common.PidFile.create(PidFile.java:44)  
[2022-03-12T15:28:48,298][WARN][stderr] [VPCELS001] at org.Elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:319)  
[2022-03-12T15:28:48,298][WARN][stderr] [VPCELS001] at org.Elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:166)  
[2022-03-12T15:28:48,299][WARN][stderr] [VPCELS001] at org.Elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:157)  
[2022-03-12T15:28:48,299][WARN][stderr] [VPCELS001] at org.Elasticsearch.common.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:81)  
[2022-03-12T15:28:48,300][WARN][stderr] [VPCELS001] at org.Elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:112)  
[2022-03-12T15:28:48,300][WARN][stderr] [VPCELS001] at org.Elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:77)  
[2022-03-12T15:28:48,300][WARN][stderr] [VPCELS001] at org.Elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:122)  
[2022-03-12T15:28:48,301][WARN][stderr] [VPCELS001] at org.Elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:80)  
[2022-03-12T15:28:48,306][WARN][stderr] [VPCELS001] For complete error details, refer to the log at /var/log/Elasticsearch/Elasticsearch.log

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**Author:** ![mayayisim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@mayayisim](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mayayisim)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2022, 12:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-1-fail-to-start/299524/2 "2022-03-13T12:37:27Z")

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Sorted, I created the directory and give it permissions: # chown -R Elasticsearch:Elasticsearch /var/run/Elasticsearch/. And after I installed systemd-libs # yum install systemd-libs.  
Elasticsearch now running

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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:** [April 10, 2022, 12:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-1-fail-to-start/299524/3 "2022-04-10T12:37:40Z")

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