# Elasticsearch is not starting - AccessDeniedException

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-starting-accessdeniedexception/227863>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 14, 2020, 7:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-starting-accessdeniedexception/227863 "2020-04-14T07:37:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Billz1026](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/67e7ee/32.png) [@Billz1026](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Billz1026)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 7:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-starting-accessdeniedexception/227863/1 "2020-04-14T07:37:41Z")

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Dear All,

I have installed ES v7.6.2 using rpm file. I have used following command to install and ES was installed successfully without giving an error.

`rpm -i elasticsearch-7.6.2-x86_64.rpm`

Before installing ES i had installed JAVA using following command.

`yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk.x86_64`

When I check the JAVA version, it gives the correct installed version as below.

```
openjdk version "1.8.0_242"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_242-b08)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.242-b08, mixed mode)

```

But the problem is when I try to run the ES service it is not coming up and following error is logged in the logs.

```
Apr 14 03:05:41 localhost systemd: Starting Elasticsearch...
Apr 14 03:05:43 localhost elasticsearch: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: Option UseConcMarkSweepGC was deprecated in version 9.0 and will likely be removed in a futur
e release.
Apr 14 03:05:49 localhost elasticsearch: Exception in thread "main" org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.BootstrapException: java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /var/run/elasti
csearch
Apr 14 03:05:49 localhost elasticsearch: Likely root cause: java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /var/run/elasticsearch
Apr 14 03:05:49 localhost elasticsearch: at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:90)
Apr 14 03:05:49 localhost elasticsearch: at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:111)
Apr 14 03:05:49 localhost elasticsearch: at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:116)
Apr 14 03:05:49 localhost elasticsearch: at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.createDirectory(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:389)
Apr 14 03:05:49 localhost elasticsearch: at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.createDirectory(Files.java:693)
Apr 14 03:05:49 localhost elasticsearch: at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.createAndCheckIsDirectory(Files.java:800)
Apr 14 03:05:49 localhost elasticsearch: at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.createDirectories(Files.java:786)
Apr 14 03:05:49 localhost elasticsearch: at org.elasticsearch.common.PidFile.create(PidFile.java:69)
Apr 14 03:05:49 localhost elasticsearch: at org.elasticsearch.common.PidFile.create(PidFile.java:55)
Apr 14 03:05:49 localhost elasticsearch: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:324)
Apr 14 03:05:49 localhost elasticsearch: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:170)
Apr 14 03:05:49 localhost elasticsearch: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:161)
Apr 14 03:05:49 localhost elasticsearch: at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86)
Apr 14 03:05:49 localhost elasticsearch: at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:125)
Apr 14 03:05:49 localhost elasticsearch: at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90)
Apr 14 03:05:49 localhost elasticsearch: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:126)
Apr 14 03:05:49 localhost elasticsearch: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:92)
Apr 14 03:05:49 localhost elasticsearch: For complete error details, refer to the log at /var/log/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.log
Apr 14 03:05:49 localhost systemd: elasticsearch.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Apr 14 03:05:49 localhost systemd: Failed to start Elasticsearch.
Apr 14 03:05:49 localhost systemd: Unit elasticsearch.service entered failed state.
Apr 14 03:10:13 localhost systemd: Starting Cleanup of Temporary Directories...
Apr 14 03:10:13 localhost systemd: Started Cleanup of Temporary Directories.

```

When i went through the log file I identified that the error was because of permission issue with a file.  
` Apr 14 03:05:49 localhost elasticsearch: Exception in thread "main"org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.BootstrapException:java.nio.file.AccessDeniedExceptin: /var/run/elasticsearch`

But when i checked on the above mentioned file, there was no file with that name in the mentioned directory.

Please help me to solve this error and I had configured ES v6.5 using the same method and it is running without any issue.

Thanks in advance  
Billz26

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**Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 7:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-starting-accessdeniedexception/227863/2 "2020-05-12T07:37:43Z")

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