# Elasticsearch failed after few seconds of start

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-failed-after-few-seconds-of-start/145330>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 21, 2018, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-failed-after-few-seconds-of-start/145330 "2018-08-21T08:36:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![gymbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f07891/32.png) [@gymbo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gymbo)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-failed-after-few-seconds-of-start/145330/1 "2018-08-21T08:36:29Z")

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I start Elasticsearch with command "systemctl start elasticsearch.service"

Then i check if elasticsearch is running with "systemctl status elasticsearch.service"

I have Ubuntu 18.04 and Elasticsearch 6.3

After 10-20 seconds, he said the status is failed.

● elasticsearch.service - Elasticsearch  
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)  
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2018-08-21 08:21:23 UTC; 610ms ago  
Docs: [http://www.elastic.co](http://www.elastic.co)  
Process: 32113 ExecStart=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -p ${PID\_DIR}/elasticsearch.pid --quiet (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE  
Main PID: 32113 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Aug 21 08:21:23 ip-172-31-5-215 elasticsearch[32113]: 2018-08-21 08:21:23,097 main ERROR Null object returned for RollingFile in Appenders.  
Aug 21 08:21:23 ip-172-31-5-215 elasticsearch[32113]: 2018-08-21 08:21:23,099 main ERROR Null object returned for RollingFile in Appenders.  
Aug 21 08:21:23 ip-172-31-5-215 elasticsearch[32113]: 2018-08-21 08:21:23,099 main ERROR Null object returned for RollingFile in Appenders.  
Aug 21 08:21:23 ip-172-31-5-215 elasticsearch[32113]: 2018-08-21 08:21:23,099 main ERROR Unable to locate appender "rolling" for logger conf  
Aug 21 08:21:23 ip-172-31-5-215 elasticsearch[32113]: 2018-08-21 08:21:23,100 main ERROR Unable to locate appender "index\_indexing\_slowlog\_r  
Aug 21 08:21:23 ip-172-31-5-215 elasticsearch[32113]: 2018-08-21 08:21:23,101 main ERROR Unable to locate appender "audit\_rolling" for logge  
Aug 21 08:21:23 ip-172-31-5-215 elasticsearch[32113]: 2018-08-21 08:21:23,102 main ERROR Unable to locate appender "index\_search\_slowlog\_rol  
Aug 21 08:21:23 ip-172-31-5-215 elasticsearch[32113]: 2018-08-21 08:21:23,102 main ERROR Unable to locate appender "deprecation\_rolling" for  
Aug 21 08:21:23 ip-172-31-5-215 systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE  
Aug 21 08:21:23 ip-172-31-5-215 systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

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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:** [September 18, 2018, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-failed-after-few-seconds-of-start/145330/2 "2018-09-18T08:36:31Z")

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