# Elasticsearch failed to start yesterday

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-failed-to-start-yesterday/87693>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 31, 2017, 8:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-failed-to-start-yesterday/87693 "2017-05-31T08:12:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Saplog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@Saplog](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Saplog)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-failed-to-start-yesterday/87693/21 "2017-05-31T09:25:48Z")

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Yes I will, thanks for your help 🙂

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**Author:** ![yashvit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b3f665/32.png) [@yashvit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yashvit)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-failed-to-start-yesterday/87693/22 "2017-06-16T13:37:42Z")

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Linux Version: Ubuntu 16.04  
Elasticsearch Version: 1.7.3

I have recently added some new nodes to my existing cluster, and randomly one server would not start elasticsearch on restart. When manually trying to start it gives the following error:

```
>sudo systemctl status elasticsearch

* elasticsearch.service - Elasticsearch
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2017-06-16 12:32:28 UTC; 3s ago
     Docs: http://www.elastic.co
  Process: 1437 ExecStart=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -Des.pidfile=$PID_DIR/elasticsearch.pid -Des.default.path.home=$ES_HOME -Des.default.p
 Main PID: 1437 (code=exited, status=3)

Jun 16 12:32:28 els02.jobsoid.net elasticsearch[1437]: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /var/run/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.pid (No such file or directory)
Jun 16 12:32:28 els02.jobsoid.net elasticsearch[1437]: at java.io.FileOutputStream.open0(Native Method)
Jun 16 12:32:28 els02.jobsoid.net elasticsearch[1437]: at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(FileOutputStream.java:270)
Jun 16 12:32:28 els02.jobsoid.net elasticsearch[1437]: at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:213)
Jun 16 12:32:28 els02.jobsoid.net elasticsearch[1437]: at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:162)
Jun 16 12:32:28 els02.jobsoid.net elasticsearch[1437]: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:194)
Jun 16 12:32:28 els02.jobsoid.net elasticsearch[1437]: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:32)
Jun 16 12:32:28 els02.jobsoid.net systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=3/NOTIMPLEMENTED
Jun 16 12:32:28 els02.jobsoid.net systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jun 16 12:32:28 els02.jobsoid.net systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

```

If I create a folder /var/run/elasticsearch and change ownership to elasticsearch:elasticsearch then elasticsearch starts. On restart again the same issue.

I tried changing the PID\_DIR folder to /var/run in the service file at /usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service  
with that it gives an error: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /var/run/elasticsearch.pid (Permission denied) instead of "no such file or directory"

One other thing i noticed, when I manually create the dir in /var/run and force elasticsearch to start, it seems to work fine but the GET /\_nodes does not return any stats of the OS or Filesystem.

Makes me think its some permission issue?

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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:** [July 14, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-failed-to-start-yesterday/87693/23 "2017-07-14T13:37:44Z")

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