# Elasticsearch immediately stop after start
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-immediately-stop-after-start/138341
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 3, 2018, 9:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-immediately-stop-after-start/138341 "2018-07-03T09:11:45Z")
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### Author:  [@mamta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mamta)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2018, 9:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-immediately-stop-after-start/138341/1 "2018-07-03T09:11:45Z")
I installed elasticsearch 5.6.8 on Redhat. I have started the elasticsearch by using systemctl start elasticsearch . After status change to running then it goes to the failure mode.
I am sending you my elasticsearch log.
Thank you.
1. Error injecting constructor, ElasticsearchException[java.io.IOException: failed to read [id:11, legacy:false, file:/var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0/\_state/global-11.st]]; nested: IOException[failed to read [id:11, legacy:false, file:/var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0/\_state/global-11.st]]; nested: IllegalArgumentException[Template must not be null];
at org.elasticsearch.gateway.GatewayMetaState.(Unknown Source)
while locating org.elasticsearch.gateway.GatewayMetaState
Caused by: ElasticsearchException[java.io.IOException: failed to read [id:11, legacy:false, file:/var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0/\_state/global-11.st]]; nested: IOException[failed to read [id:11, legacy:false, file:/var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0/\_state/global-11.st]]; nested: IllegalArgumentException[Template must not be null];
at org.elasticsearch.ExceptionsHelper.maybeThrowRuntimeAndSuppress(ExceptionsHelper.java:190)
at org.elasticsearch.gateway.MetaDataStateFormat.loadLatestState(MetaDataStateFormat.java:334)
at org.elasticsearch.gateway.MetaStateService.loadGlobalState(MetaStateService.java:113)
at org.elasticsearch.gateway.MetaStateService.loadFullState(MetaStateService.java:57)
at org.elasticsearch.gateway.GatewayMetaState.(GatewayMetaState.java:92)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.DefaultConstructionProxyFactory$1.newInstance(DefaultConstructionProxyFactory.java:49)
at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.ConstructorInjector.construct(ConstructorInjector.java:86)
at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.ConstructorBindingImpl$Factory.get(ConstructorBindingImpl.java:116)
at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.ProviderToInternalFactoryAdapter$1.call(ProviderToInternalFactoryAdapter.java:47)
at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.InjectorImpl.callInContext(InjectorImpl.java:825)
at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.ProviderToInternalFactoryAdapter.get(ProviderToInternalFactoryAdapter.java:43)
at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.Scopes$1$1.get(Scopes.java:59)
at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.InternalFactoryToProviderAdapter.get(InternalFactoryToProviderAdapter.java:50)
at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.InjectorBuilder$1.call(InjectorBuilder.java:191)
at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.InjectorBuilder$1.call(InjectorBuilder.java:183)
at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.InjectorImpl.callInContext(InjectorImpl.java:818)
at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.InjectorBuilder.loadEagerSingletons(InjectorBuilder.java:183)
at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.InjectorBuilder.loadEagerSingletons(InjectorBuilder.java:176)
at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.InjectorBuilder.injectDynamically(InjectorBuilder.java:161)
at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.InjectorBuilder.build(InjectorBuilder.java:96)
at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.Guice.createInjector(Guice.java:96)
at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.Guice.createInjector(Guice.java:70)
at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.ModulesBuilder.createInjector(ModulesBuilder.java:42)
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:499)
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:245)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap$5.(Bootstrap.java:233)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:233)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:342)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:132)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:123)
at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:70)
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:134)
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:91)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:84)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: failed to read [id:11, legacy:false, file:/var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0/\_state/global-11.st]
at org.elasticsearch.gateway.MetaDataStateFormat.loadLatestState(MetaDataStateFormat.java:327)
... 37 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Template must not be null
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.IndexTemplateMetaData.(IndexTemplateMetaData.java:94)
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.IndexTemplateMetaData$Builder.build(IndexTemplateMetaData.java:374)
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.IndexTemplateMetaData$Builder.fromXContent(IndexTemplateMetaData.java:502)
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.MetaData$Builder.fromXContent(MetaData.java:1164)
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.MetaData$2.fromXContent(MetaData.java:1211)
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.MetaData$2.fromXContent(MetaData.java:1202)
at org.elasticsearch.gateway.MetaDataStateFormat.read(MetaDataStateFormat.java:202)
at org.elasticsearch.gateway.MetaDataStateFormat.loadLatestState(MetaDataStateFormat.java:322)
... 37 more
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### Author:  [@Igor\_Motov](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Igor_Motov)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2018, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-immediately-stop-after-start/138341/2 "2018-07-06T13:42:37Z")
Can you run `ls -l /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0/_state/` and put the output here?
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### Author:  [@mamta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mamta)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2018, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-immediately-stop-after-start/138341/3 "2018-07-12T12:09:41Z")
Hey,
Thank you for reply.
I solved this issues by deleting elasticsearch from below path and reinstalled it.
/var/lib/elasticsearch
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2018, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-immediately-stop-after-start/138341/4 "2018-08-09T12:09:44Z")
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