# Elasticsearch fails shortly after starting (CentOS 7, ES 5.6.\*, installed using RPM)
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-fails-shortly-after-starting-centos-7-es-5-6-installed-using-rpm/161934
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 23, 2018, 3:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-fails-shortly-after-starting-centos-7-es-5-6-installed-using-rpm/161934 "2018-12-23T03:09:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@keddy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/keddy)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2018, 3:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-fails-shortly-after-starting-centos-7-es-5-6-installed-using-rpm/161934/1 "2018-12-23T03:09:36Z")
Getting the following systemd log entries when attempting to start ElasticSearch:
```auto
Dec 22 21:57:42 mydomain.com systemd[1]: Starting Elasticsearch...
Dec 22 21:57:42 mydomain.com systemd[1]: Started Elasticsearch.
Dec 22 21:57:54 mydomain.com systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dec 22 21:57:54 mydomain.com systemd[1]: Unit elasticsearch.service entered failed state.
Dec 22 21:57:54 mydomain.com systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service failed.
```
how do I debug this to figure out what is causing the problem?
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### Author:  [@keddy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/keddy)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2018, 3:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-fails-shortly-after-starting-centos-7-es-5-6-installed-using-rpm/161934/2 "2018-12-23T03:11:32Z")
I saw in a similar post that a respondent asked what the following command produced:
`ls -ld /var/ /var/log/ /var/log/elasticsearch/ /usr/share/elasticsearch/ /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/`
This command produces the following result:
```auto
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Dec 22 21:19 /usr/share/elasticsearch/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 22 21:19 /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Dec 22 19:55 /var/
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Dec 22 22:01 /var/log/
drwxr-x--- 2 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4096 Dec 22 21:25 /var/log/elasticsearch/
```
Hope that is useful in answering the original post! 🙂
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### Author:  [@keddy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/keddy)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2018, 3:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-fails-shortly-after-starting-centos-7-es-5-6-installed-using-rpm/161934/3 "2018-12-23T03:14:19Z")
The following is also returned when I check the status of Elasticsearch using `sudo service elasticsearch status`:
```auto
● elasticsearch.service - Elasticsearch
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2018-12-22 21:57:54 EST; 14min ago
Docs: http://www.elastic.co
Process: 31663 ExecStart=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -p ${PID_DIR}/elasticsearch.pid --quiet -Edefault.path.logs=${LOG_DIR} -Edefault.path.data=${DATA_DIR} -Edefault.path.conf=${CONF_DIR} (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Process: 31661 ExecStartPre=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-systemd-pre-exec (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 31663 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
```
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2018, 1:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-fails-shortly-after-starting-centos-7-es-5-6-installed-using-rpm/161934/4 "2018-12-28T01:18:21Z")
Is there anything in the Elasticsearch logs?
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### Author:  [@keddy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/keddy)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2018, 3:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-fails-shortly-after-starting-centos-7-es-5-6-installed-using-rpm/161934/5 "2018-12-28T03:39:49Z")
Hi Mark,
I was able to figure out the problem in my case. I was installing the eDirectory platform ([edirectory.com](http://edirectory.com)), which calls for ElasticSearch, but I accidentally installed a newer version of ES that isn't yet supported by eDirectory, and when I uninstalled the newer ES and installed the older version, the /var/tmp/elasticsearch folder was giving me trouble. I was able to solve the problem by uninstalling ES, deleting the folder, and reinstalling.
Thanks for following up! I really appreciate it!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2019, 3:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-fails-shortly-after-starting-centos-7-es-5-6-installed-using-rpm/161934/6 "2019-01-25T03:39:51Z")
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