Elasticsearch dead but pid file exists

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Hi,

While trying to check the elasticsearch status, I am getting the message

elasticsearch dead but pid file exists.

How can I restart my services.?

Thank you,
Shriyansh

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First grep the pid of existing elasticsearch using
netstat -ntlp | grep 9200
kill that pid and start the elasticsearch service

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:08 PM, shriyansh jain shriyanshajain@gmail.com
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Hi,

While trying to check the elasticsearch status, I am getting the message

elasticsearch dead but pid file exists.

How can I restart my services.?

Thank you,
Shriyansh

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The command is not giving me any output. Is there any other way to find out
the problem.?

Thanks,
Shriyansh

On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:33:43 AM UTC-7, pawansharma2045 wrote:

First grep the pid of existing elasticsearch using
netstat -ntlp | grep 9200
kill that pid and start the elasticsearch service

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:08 PM, shriyansh jain <shriyan...@gmail.com
<javascript:>> wrote:

Hi,

While trying to check the elasticsearch status, I am getting the message

elasticsearch dead but pid file exists.

How can I restart my services.?

Thank you,
Shriyansh

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On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:37:48 AM UTC-7, shriyansh jain wrote:

The command is not giving me any output. Is there any other way to find
out the problem.?

Thanks,
Shriyansh

On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:33:43 AM UTC-7, pawansharma2045 wrote:

First grep the pid of existing elasticsearch using
netstat -ntlp | grep 9200
kill that pid and start the elasticsearch service

when i try to execute "sudo service elasticsearch restart". it throws an
exception

IOException[No space left on device]
java.io.IOException: No space left on device
at java.io.FileOutputStream.writeBytes(Native Method)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.write(FileOutputStream.java:305)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:157)
at
org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:32)

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:08 PM, shriyansh jain shriyan...@gmail.com
wrote:

Hi,

While trying to check the elasticsearch status, I am getting the message

elasticsearch dead but pid file exists.

How can I restart my services.?

Thank you,
Shriyansh

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it means that you have no space left on root directory.

Can you tell me the output of df -h

it is is 100% then you have to make some space

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:24 PM, shriyansh jain shriyanshajain@gmail.com
wrote:

On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:37:48 AM UTC-7, shriyansh jain wrote:

The command is not giving me any output. Is there any other way to find
out the problem.?

Thanks,
Shriyansh

On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:33:43 AM UTC-7, pawansharma2045 wrote:

First grep the pid of existing elasticsearch using
netstat -ntlp | grep 9200
kill that pid and start the elasticsearch service

when i try to execute "sudo service elasticsearch restart". it throws an
exception

IOException[No space left on device]
java.io.IOException: No space left on device
at java.io.FileOutputStream.writeBytes(Native Method)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.write(FileOutputStream.java:305)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:157)
at
org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:32)

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:08 PM, shriyansh jain shriyan...@gmail.com
wrote:

Hi,

While trying to check the elasticsearch status, I am getting the message

elasticsearch dead but pid file exists.

How can I restart my services.?

Thank you,
Shriyansh

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I am writing the data to /auto/foo, and after going into that directory and
doing df -h it gives me

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 24G 17G 5.8G 75% /
tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 97M 82M 9.9M 90% /boot
/dev/sda6 2.0G 135M 1.8G 7% /tmp
/dev/sda5 6.0G 5.7G 0 100% /var
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
16T 4.2T 11T 28% /auto/home.nas01
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
127T 27T 101T 21% /auto/foo
Thanks,
Shriyansh

On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:43:35 AM UTC-7, pawansharma2045 wrote:

it means that you have no space left on root directory.

Can you tell me the output of df -h

it is is 100% then you have to make some space

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:24 PM, shriyansh jain <shriyan...@gmail.com
<javascript:>> wrote:

On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:37:48 AM UTC-7, shriyansh jain wrote:

The command is not giving me any output. Is there any other way to find
out the problem.?

Thanks,
Shriyansh

On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:33:43 AM UTC-7, pawansharma2045 wrote:

First grep the pid of existing elasticsearch using
*netstat -ntlp | grep 9200 *
kill that pid and start the elasticsearch service

when i try to execute "sudo service elasticsearch restart". it throws
an exception

IOException[No space left on device]
java.io.IOException: No space left on device
at java.io.FileOutputStream.writeBytes(Native Method)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.write(FileOutputStream.java:305)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:157)
at
org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:32)

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:08 PM, shriyansh jain shriyan...@gmail.com
wrote:

Hi,

While trying to check the elasticsearch status, I am getting the
message

elasticsearch dead but pid file exists.

How can I restart my services.?

Thank you,
Shriyansh

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/var is 100% so you are getting this issue could you please create some
space in /var and try to start elasticsearch.

your path.data in elasticsearch.yml inside /var

Could you provide the full path of path.data. from elasticsearch.yml

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:32 PM, shriyansh jain shriyanshajain@gmail.com
wrote:

I am writing the data to /auto/foo, and after going into that directory
and doing df -h it gives me

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 24G 17G 5.8G 75% /
tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 97M 82M 9.9M 90% /boot
/dev/sda6 2.0G 135M 1.8G 7% /tmp
/dev/sda5 6.0G 5.7G 0 100% /var
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
16T 4.2T 11T 28% /auto/home.nas01
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
127T 27T 101T 21% /auto/foo
Thanks,
Shriyansh

On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:43:35 AM UTC-7, pawansharma2045 wrote:

it means that you have no space left on root directory.

Can you tell me the output of df -h

it is is 100% then you have to make some space

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:24 PM, shriyansh jain shriyan...@gmail.com
wrote:

On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:37:48 AM UTC-7, shriyansh jain wrote:

The command is not giving me any output. Is there any other way to find
out the problem.?

Thanks,
Shriyansh

On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:33:43 AM UTC-7, pawansharma2045 wrote:

First grep the pid of existing elasticsearch using
*netstat -ntlp | grep 9200 *
kill that pid and start the elasticsearch service

when i try to execute "sudo service elasticsearch restart". it throws
an exception

IOException[No space left on device]
java.io.IOException: No space left on device
at java.io.FileOutputStream.writeBytes(Native Method)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.write(FileOutputStream.java:305)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:
157)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(
Elasticsearch.java:32)

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:08 PM, shriyansh jain <shriyan...@gmail.com

wrote:

Hi,

While trying to check the elasticsearch status, I am getting the
message

elasticsearch dead but pid file exists.

How can I restart my services.?

Thank you,
Shriyansh

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Yes, it was because of the logs being written to /var/log/elasticsearch. I
created space in /var/log and the elasticsearch instance was able to
restart successfully after that.
Thank you very much for you advice. I really appreciate it.

Thank you,
Shriyansh

On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:52:45 AM UTC-7, pawansharma2045 wrote:

/var is 100% so you are getting this issue could you please create some
space in /var and try to start elasticsearch.

your path.data in elasticsearch.yml inside /var

Could you provide the full path of path.data. from elasticsearch.yml

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:32 PM, shriyansh jain <shriyan...@gmail.com
<javascript:>> wrote:

I am writing the data to /auto/foo, and after going into that directory
and doing df -h it gives me

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 24G 17G 5.8G 75% /
tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 97M 82M 9.9M 90% /boot
/dev/sda6 2.0G 135M 1.8G 7% /tmp
/dev/sda5 6.0G 5.7G 0 100% /var
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
16T 4.2T 11T 28% /auto/home.nas01
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
127T 27T 101T 21% /auto/foo
Thanks,
Shriyansh

On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:43:35 AM UTC-7, pawansharma2045 wrote:

it means that you have no space left on root directory.

Can you tell me the output of df -h

it is is 100% then you have to make some space

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:24 PM, shriyansh jain shriyan...@gmail.com
wrote:

On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:37:48 AM UTC-7, shriyansh jain wrote:

The command is not giving me any output. Is there any other way to
find out the problem.?

Thanks,
Shriyansh

On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:33:43 AM UTC-7, pawansharma2045 wrote:

First grep the pid of existing elasticsearch using
*netstat -ntlp | grep 9200 *
kill that pid and start the elasticsearch service

when i try to execute "sudo service elasticsearch restart". it throws
an exception

IOException[No space left on device]
java.io.IOException: No space left on device
at java.io.FileOutputStream.writeBytes(Native Method)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.write(FileOutputStream.java:305)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:
157)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(
Elasticsearch.java:32)

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:08 PM, shriyansh jain <
shriyan...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

While trying to check the elasticsearch status, I am getting the
message

elasticsearch dead but pid file exists.

How can I restart my services.?

Thank you,
Shriyansh

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