# Elasticsearch is not starting **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [April 3, 2016, 11:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-starting/46158 "2016-04-03T11:53:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kartheek91](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/cc9497/32.png) [@kartheek91](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kartheek91)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 11:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-starting/46158/1 "2016-04-03T11:53:52Z")
I'm trying to upgrade elasticsearch version from 1.7.1 to elasticsearch 2.0.0 so I followed the steps which is given in the documentation but after upgration I'm enable to start the elasticsearch ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/8/868fb4cec01288b218f911d9662b82af255355f4.png) ---
**Author:** ![mourlos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mourlos/32/10788_2.png) [@mourlos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mourlos)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 11:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-starting/46158/2 "2016-04-03T11:59:13Z")
Can you provide some more information? What does the log file say? ---
**Author:** ![kartheek91](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/cc9497/32.png) [@kartheek91](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kartheek91)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 11:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-starting/46158/3 "2016-04-03T11:59:51Z")
Can please tell me where to check logs ---
**Author:** ![mourlos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mourlos/32/10788_2.png) [@mourlos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mourlos)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 12:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-starting/46158/4 "2016-04-03T12:01:29Z")
They are located in /var/log/elasticsearch Check for any errors that indicate where the problem is. ---
**Author:** ![kartheek91](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/cc9497/32.png) [@kartheek91](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kartheek91)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 12:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-starting/46158/5 "2016-04-03T12:03:03Z")
Actually I have seen that logs but today's log is not there till yesterday we have logs ---
**Author:** ![maple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@maple](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maple)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-starting/46158/6 "2016-04-03T13:17:50Z")
hi guy, Can you provide some more information? ---
**Author:** ![kartheek91](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/cc9497/32.png) [@kartheek91](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kartheek91)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-starting/46158/7 "2016-04-03T13:18:49Z")
ya thank you I trying to fix the issue but unable to fix ---
**Author:** ![maple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@maple](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maple)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-starting/46158/8 "2016-04-03T13:23:15Z")
I hope you can provide some other error information or log . ---
**Author:** ![kartheek91](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/cc9497/32.png) [@kartheek91](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kartheek91)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 1:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-starting/46158/9 "2016-04-03T13:24:36Z")
ok I will send you the log ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-starting/46158/10 "2016-04-03T20:46:54Z")
Please don't post pictures of text like that, not everyone can see pictures and they are usually harder to read than the raw text. What OS are you on? Did you run the [migration checker](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-migration) before you upgraded? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-starting/46158/11 "2017-07-05T23:02:49Z")