# Elasticsearch Problems and Best Distro for Production Deployments

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-problems-and-best-distro-for-production-deployments/76826>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 28, 2017, 4:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-problems-and-best-distro-for-production-deployments/76826 "2017-02-28T16:37:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![x0r](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/7ba0ec/32.png) [@x0r](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/x0r)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 4:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-problems-and-best-distro-for-production-deployments/76826/1 "2017-02-28T16:37:18Z")

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Hey there everyone,

I wanted to write to get some feedback from the community on what people feel is the best Linux distro to utilize for a production deployment of elasticsearch/logstash/kibana. It seems that since the release of version 5.0 I have had nothing but problems getting things up and running on various environments.

Currently it seems that my issues have been related to java permissions when installing x-pack or similar.  
I have tried fresh installs of the following distros with no succes:

Ubuntu 14.04.4 desktop  
Ubuntu 16.04.1-server-amd64  
Ubuntu 16.10-server-amd64  
Debian 7.6  
Opensuse-Leap-42.1-amd64

Installing x-pack in elasticsearch would often fail with a large number of permission errors regardless of if I attempted using a local copy of x-pack or the auto downloading capability of elasticsearch-plugin.

In terms of Java and the version, I have been installing openJDK-8-jdk (but have tried with version 9 also).

Prior to version 5 I had no issues setting up multimode clusters and gettings things to run in a stable fashion... sooooo I'm hoping that maybe the community could suggest a Linux distro that is known to work out of the box with a subset of packages installed, etc.

My hope is to get a version of 5.2.1 up and running to the point where it can be utilized in a production environment.

Any input on this topic would be greatly appreciated as the frustration level is starting to drive me mad! 🙂

Regardless, thanks in advance for your time on this question..

Cheers.

Markus

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**Author:** ![jasontedor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jasontedor/32/66992_2.png) [@jasontedor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jasontedor)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-problems-and-best-distro-for-production-deployments/76826/2 "2017-02-28T21:22:53Z")

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> [@x0r](#):
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> Currently it seems that my issues have been related to java permissions when installing x-pack or similar.

Sorry for the troubles that you're having. Would you mind sharing console or log messages demonstrating the problem that you're running into?

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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:** [March 28, 2017, 9:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-problems-and-best-distro-for-production-deployments/76826/3 "2017-03-28T21:23:22Z")

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