# Elasticsearch not restarting

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-restarting/210583>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 4, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-restarting/210583 "2019-12-04T19:10:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![pksinghal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f19dbf/32.png) [@pksinghal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pksinghal)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-restarting/210583/1 "2019-12-04T19:10:23Z")

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While restarting elasticsearch, getting this error :

[2019-12-05T00:26:09,539][WARN][o.e.b.ElasticsearchUncaughtExceptionHandler] uncaught exception in thread [main]  
org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.StartupException: org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.BootstrapException: java.util.zip.ZipException: zip file is empty  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:136) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.5.jar:5.6.5]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:123) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.5.jar:5.6.5]  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:70) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.5.jar:5.6.5]

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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:** [January 1, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-restarting/210583/2 "2020-01-01T19:10:23Z")

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