# Elasticsearch not running on RHEL 7.3

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-running-on-rhel-7-3/166479>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 31, 2019, 6:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-running-on-rhel-7-3/166479 "2019-01-31T06:40:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chandan1144](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@Chandan1144](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chandan1144)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 6:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-running-on-rhel-7-3/166479/1 "2019-01-31T06:40:53Z")

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Getting error while starting elasticsearch 6.6 from terminal.

Java Version -1.8.0.152  
OS Version - RHEL 7.3  
Installation mode - tar.gz file extracted

[2019-01-31T11:47:30,044][WARN][o.e.b.ElasticsearchUncaughtExceptionHandler] [node-1] uncaught exception in thread [main]  
org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.StartupException: java.lang.NullPointerException  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:163) ~[elasticsearch-6.6.0.jar:6.6.0]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:150) ~[elasticsearch-6.6.0.jar:6.6.0]  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86) ~[elasticsearch-6.6.0.jar:6.6.0]  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124) ~[elasticsearch-cli-6.6.0.jar:6.6.0]  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90) ~[elasticsearch-cli-6.6.0.jar:6.6.0]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:116) ~[elasticsearch-6.6.0.jar:6.6.0]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:93) ~[elasticsearch-6.6.0.jar:6.6.0]  
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException  
at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystem.getPath(UnixFileSystem.java:273) ~[?:?]  
at org.elasticsearch.common.io.PathUtils.get(PathUtils.java:60) ~[elasticsearch-core-6.6.0.jar:6.6.0]

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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:** [February 28, 2019, 6:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-running-on-rhel-7-3/166479/2 "2019-02-28T06:40:54Z")

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