# Elasticsearch docker container 8.5.2 startup ERROR: Elasticsearch did not exit normally

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-docker-container-8-5-2-startup-error-elasticsearch-did-not-exit-normally/320634>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [December 7, 2022, 2:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-docker-container-8-5-2-startup-error-elasticsearch-did-not-exit-normally/320634 "2022-12-07T02:14:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![khteh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/khteh/32/147573_2.png) [@khteh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/khteh)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 2:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-docker-container-8-5-2-startup-error-elasticsearch-did-not-exit-normally/320634/1 "2022-12-07T02:14:26Z")

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Elasticsearch docker container 8.5.2 startup with this error:

```auto
ERROR: Elasticsearch did not exit normally - check the logs at /usr/share/elasticsearch/logs/elasticsearch.log
2022-12-07 02:08:06,247 process reaper (pid 118) ERROR Recursive call to appender rolling

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 2:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-docker-container-8-5-2-startup-error-elasticsearch-did-not-exit-normally/320634/2 "2022-12-07T02:56:35Z")

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> [@khteh](#):
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> `check the logs at /usr/share/elasticsearch/logs/elasticsearch.log`

Did you check that? 🙂

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**Author:** ![khteh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/khteh/32/147573_2.png) [@khteh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/khteh)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 3:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-docker-container-8-5-2-startup-error-elasticsearch-did-not-exit-normally/320634/3 "2022-12-07T03:10:23Z")

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What do you think? How can anyone check that if the pod doesn't even boot up?

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**Author:** ![thedroppedpocket](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thedroppedpocket/32/114368_2.png) [@thedroppedpocket](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thedroppedpocket)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 6:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-docker-container-8-5-2-startup-error-elasticsearch-did-not-exit-normally/320634/4 "2022-12-07T18:43:14Z")

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I am getting the same error and it was not happening on the actual same image yesterday and I am not sure what caused it.

That being said the 8.7.0 snapshot doesn't throw this error if you are interested in just canning the entire 8.5 effort 🙂

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 9:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-docker-container-8-5-2-startup-error-elasticsearch-did-not-exit-normally/320634/5 "2022-12-07T21:30:13Z")

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I wouldn't be running a snapshot myself, it's entirely unsupported.

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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:** [January 4, 2023, 9:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-docker-container-8-5-2-startup-error-elasticsearch-did-not-exit-normally/320634/6 "2023-01-04T21:30:18Z")

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