# Elasticsearch couldn't start and no logs

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-couldnt-start-and-no-logs/163535>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 9, 2019, 1:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-couldnt-start-and-no-logs/163535 "2019-01-09T13:08:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![jogoinar10](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jogoinar10/32/20068_2.png) [@jogoinar10](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jogoinar10)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 1:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-couldnt-start-and-no-logs/163535/1 "2019-01-09T13:08:32Z")

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I have a cluster with 2 nodes.

As of now I cannot start the other node.  
I didn't know what happen.  
It does now give logs also.

when i try to command `service elasticsearch start` this is the output:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/f/af08890df538a3940152575b514fa0ad3a62f713.png)

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I'm running on ES version 6.4.2  
config:

cluster.name: SampleCluster  
node.name: node-1  
path.data: /var/lib/elasticsearch  
path.logs: /var/log/elasticsearch  
network.host: 192.168.200.83  
http.port: 9200  
discovery.zen.ping.unicast.host: ["192.168.200.83", "192.168.200.84"]  
discovery.zen.minimum\_master\_nodes: 2

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-couldnt-start-and-no-logs/163535/2 "2019-01-09T13:37:42Z")

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you can use the `journalctl` tool to extract the whole logging and share it here.

Also, please do not use screenshots, but copy paste the text properly. This makes it searchable (and findable) as well as possible to read for anyone. Thanks!

--Alex

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**Author:** ![jogoinar10](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jogoinar10/32/20068_2.png) [@jogoinar10](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jogoinar10)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 7:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-couldnt-start-and-no-logs/163535/3 "2019-01-15T07:48:08Z")

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Thanks. Will try that one.

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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:** [February 12, 2019, 7:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-couldnt-start-and-no-logs/163535/4 "2019-02-12T07:48:14Z")

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