Elasticsearch-plugin consistently installs plugins EARLIER than my version

[Bob_Metelsky]

I have a ES 5.2 cluster
I would think there would be some version checking so the application does NOT install incompatible versions.

Why does elasticsearch-plugin installer do this?

Also it seems the documentation to install a plugin from a zip file is hidden somewhere or scarce.
Particullay Im trying to install mapper-attachments-5.2.2.zip

I think there is more to it than creating plugins directory and unzipping there....

In the ES_HOME directory I create a plugins directory and unzip mapper-attachments-5.2.2.zip that creates a elasticsearch directory,Then i do ES_HOME/elasticsearch-plugin install mapper-attachments and it again installs a pre 5,2 version

Seems the online documentation has inconsistencies as well...

"Mapper Attachments Plugin edit
Warning
Deprecated in 5.0.0.
The mapper-attachments plugin has been replaced by the ingest-attachment plugin"

Im running
elasticsearch -version
Version: 5.2.2, Build: f9d9b74/2017-02-24T17:26:45.835Z, JVM: 1.8.0_121

I simply do
elasticsearch-plugin install ingest-attachment

yet the installer is installing plugins before version 2.0!!

again a failure...

[2017-03-14T22:38:32,971][ERROR][o.e.b.Bootstrap ] Exception
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not load plugin descriptor for existing plugin [ingest-attachment]. Was the plugin built before 2.0?

yum update elasticsearch

Setting up Update Process
elasticsearch-5.x | 1.3 kB
elasticsearch-5.x/primary
No Packages marked for Update

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

I just ran elasticsearch-5.2.2/bin/elasticsearch-plugin install ingest-attachment on a freshly extracted download of ES and didn't have any issues.

The docs are not incorrect, that is the command you need to run.

[dadoonet (David Pilato)]

BTW mapper attachments is deprecated.

[dadoonet (David Pilato)]

May be you did not uninstall existing plugins?

[Bob_Metelsky]

Complete output below and attached log

1 My initial issue - is why does ES allow installing of incompatible plugins?

I did a rpm install using your repository
this was installed last week
no other ES was installed on this cluster
using the repo gives me the ES_HOME of
/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin

[elasticsearch-5.x]
name=Elasticsearch repository for 5.x packages
baseurl=https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/5.x/yum
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
enabled=1
autorefresh=1
type=rpm-md

[root@server ~]# elasticsearch -version
Version: 5.2.2, Build: f9d9b74/2017-02-24T17:26:45.835Z, JVM: 1.8.0_121

[root@server ~]# ls -ltr /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin
total 32
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2573 Feb 24 12:29 elasticsearch-translog
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 223 Feb 24 12:29 elasticsearch-systemd-pre-exec
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2599 Feb 24 12:29 elasticsearch-plugin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 404 Feb 24 12:29 elasticsearch.in.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7852 Feb 24 12:29 elasticsearch
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 11 08:49 x-pack
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 14 21:02 plugins

[root@server ~]# /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-plugin list
x-pack

[root@server ~]# /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-plugin install ingest-attachment
-> Downloading ingest-attachment from elastic
[=================================================] 100%
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ WARNING: plugin requires additional permissions @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

• java.lang.RuntimePermission getClassLoader
• java.lang.reflect.ReflectPermission suppressAccessChecks
• java.security.SecurityPermission createAccessControlContext
• java.security.SecurityPermission insertProvider
• java.security.SecurityPermission putProviderProperty.BC
  See http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/security/permissions.html
  for descriptions of what these permissions allow and the associated risks.
  Continue with installation? [y/N]y
  -> Installed ingest-attachment

[root@server ~]# /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-plugin list
ingest-attachment
x-pack

[root@server ~]# service elasticsearch start
[root@server ~]# service elasticsearch restart
Stopping elasticsearch: [ OK ]
Starting elasticsearch: [FAILED]

cluster log showing error here

boils down to

[2017-03-15T15:52:28,651][ERROR][o.e.b.Bootstrap ] Exception
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not load plugin descriptor for existing plugin [ingest-attachment]. Was the plugin built before 2.0?
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginsService.getPluginBundles(PluginsService.java:295) ~[elasticsearch-5.2.2.jar:5.2.2]

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

Can you post or gist/pastebin/etc the entire log please?

[Bob_Metelsky]

The entire log is here
https://sites.google.com/site/developtroubleshooting/es-plugin-error

Im sure you don't expect me to have the log from day 1...

[Bob_Metelsky]

At the bottom of the page listed above - there is a link to my current log running 4 nodes

I removed the ingest-mapper so ES could start

you can get the log here as well