# Elasticsearch : we need to run on elasticsearch it will giving error **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [April 6, 2017, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-we-need-to-run-on-elasticsearch-it-will-giving-error/81473 "2017-04-06T12:54:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bvnages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bvnages](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bvnages)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-we-need-to-run-on-elasticsearch-it-will-giving-error/81473/1 "2017-04-06T12:54:05Z")
org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.StartupException: java.lang.RuntimeException: can not run elasticsearch as root at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:125) ~[elasticsearch-5.2.0.jar:5.2.0] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:112) ~[elasticsearch-5.2.0.jar:5.2.0] at org.elasticsearch.cli.SettingCommand.execute(SettingCommand.java:54) ~[elasticsearch-5.2.0.jar:5.2.0] at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:122) ~[elasticsearch-5.2.0.jar:5.2.0] at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:88) ~[elasticsearch-5.2.0.jar:5.2.0] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:89) ~[elasticsearch-5.2.0.jar:5.2.0] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:82) ~[elasticsearch-5.2.0.jar:5.2.0] Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: can not run elasticsearch as root at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.initializeNatives(Bootstrap.java:105) ~[elasticsearch-5.2.0.jar:5.2.0] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:203) ~[elasticsearch-5.2.0.jar:5.2.0] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:333) ~[elasticsearch-5.2.0.jar:5.2.0] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:121) ~[elasticsearch-5.2.0.jar:5.2.0] ... 6 more ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 1:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-we-need-to-run-on-elasticsearch-it-will-giving-error/81473/2 "2017-04-06T13:07:17Z")
> can not run elasticsearch as root Run as another user than root ---
**Author:** ![bvnages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bvnages](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bvnages)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-we-need-to-run-on-elasticsearch-it-will-giving-error/81473/3 "2017-04-06T13:18:25Z")
here is the running as the normal user 2017-04-06 13:16:22,201 main ERROR Could not register mbeans java.security.AccessControlException: access denied ("javax.management.MBeanTrustPermission" "register") at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:472) at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:585) at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.checkMBeanTrustPermission(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:1848) at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.registerMBean(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:322) at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.registerMBean(JmxMBeanServer.java:522) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.jmx.Server.register(Server.java:389) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.jmx.Server.reregisterMBeansAfterReconfigure(Server.java:167) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.jmx.Server.reregisterMBeansAfterReconfigure(Server.java:140) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.setConfiguration(LoggerContext.java:541) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.start(LoggerContext.java:258) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:206) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configurator.initialize(Configurator.java:220) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configurator.initialize(Configurator.java:197) at org.elasticsearch.common.logging.LogConfigurator.configureStatusLogger(LogConfigurator.java:125) at org.elasticsearch.common.logging.LogConfigurator.configureWithoutConfig(LogConfigurator.java:67) at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:85) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:89) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:82) Exception in thread "main" SettingsException[Failed to load settings from /data/myWizard\_Services/elkhome/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-5.2.0/config/elasticsearch.yml]; nested: AccessDeniedException[/data/myWizard\_Services/elkhome/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-5.2.0/config/elasticsearch.yml]; Likely root cause: java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /data/myWizard\_Services/elkhome/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-5.2.0/config/elasticsearch.yml at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:84) at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102) at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:107) at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newByteChannel(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:214) at java.nio.file.Files.newByteChannel(Files.java:361) at java.nio.file.Files.newByteChannel(Files.java:407) at java.nio.file.spi.FileSystemProvider.newInputStream(FileSystemProvider.java:384) at java.nio.file.Files.newInputStream(Files.java:152) at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Settings$Builder.loadFromPath(Settings.java:914) at org.elasticsearch.node.internal.InternalSettingsPreparer.prepareEnvironment(InternalSettingsPreparer.java:102) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.initialEnvironment(Bootstrap.java:257) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:297) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:121) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:112) at org.elasticsearch.cli.SettingCommand.execute(SettingCommand.java:54) at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:122) at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:88) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:89) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:82) Refer to the log for complete error details. ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-we-need-to-run-on-elasticsearch-it-will-giving-error/81473/4 "2017-04-06T14:40:15Z")
You need to fix the access rights to the dirs. ---
**Author:** ![bvnages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bvnages](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bvnages)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 6:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-we-need-to-run-on-elasticsearch-it-will-giving-error/81473/5 "2017-04-11T06:13:48Z")
Hi dadoonet I am giving permissions to that directory as well. We are facing bellow issue. Could you please help me. 2017-04-11 06:07:17,272 main ERROR Could not register mbeans java.security.AccessControlException: Access denied ("javax.management.MBeanTrustPermission" "register") at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermissionWithCache(AccessControlContext.java:634) at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:711) at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:598) at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.checkMBeanTrustPermission(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:1860) at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.registerMBean(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:334) at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.registerMBean(JmxMBeanServer.java:534) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.jmx.Server.register(Server.java:389) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.jmx.Server.reregisterMBeansAfterReconfigure(Server.java:167) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.jmx.Server.reregisterMBeansAfterReconfigure(Server.java:140) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.setConfiguration(LoggerContext.java:541) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.start(LoggerContext.java:258) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:206) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configurator.initialize(Configurator.java:220) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configurator.initialize(Configurator.java:197) at org.elasticsearch.common.logging.LogConfigurator.configureStatusLogger(LogConfigurator.java:125) at org.elasticsearch.common.logging.LogConfigurator.configureWithoutConfig(LogConfigurator.java:67) at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:85) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:89) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:82) ERROR: no log4j2.properties found; tried [/home/venkata.bollineni/mywizardservices/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-5.2.0/config] and its subdirectories ---
**Author:** ![bvnages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bvnages](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bvnages)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 6:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-we-need-to-run-on-elasticsearch-it-will-giving-error/81473/6 "2017-04-11T06:29:11Z")
Hi All, I run the elastic-search .I will show the data.Could you please tell me its working fine or not. [2017-04-11T06:20:03,955][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [] initializing ... [2017-04-11T06:20:04,080][INFO][o.e.e.NodeEnvironment] [ua5xLr6] using [1] data paths, mounts [[/ (rootfs)]], net usable\_space [28.8gb], net total\_space [31.4gb], spins? [unknown], types [rootfs] [2017-04-11T06:20:04,081][INFO][o.e.e.NodeEnvironment] [ua5xLr6] heap size [2gb], compressed ordinary object pointers [unknown] [2017-04-11T06:20:04,082][INFO][o.e.n.Node] node name [ua5xLr6] derived from node ID [ua5xLr6lRmSScDe8wKXyeg]; set [[node.name](http://node.name)] to override [2017-04-11T06:20:04,084][INFO][o.e.n.Node] version[5.2.0], pid[23618], build[24e05b9/2017-01-24T19:52:35.800Z], OS[Linux/3.10.0-514.10.2.el7.x86\_64/amd64], JVM[IBM Corporation/IBM J9 VM/1.8.0/2.8] [2017-04-11T06:20:05,192][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [ua5xLr6] loaded module [aggs-matrix-stats] [2017-04-11T06:20:05,192][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [ua5xLr6] loaded module [ingest-common] [2017-04-11T06:20:05,192][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [ua5xLr6] loaded module [lang-expression] [2017-04-11T06:20:05,192][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [ua5xLr6] loaded module [lang-groovy] [2017-04-11T06:20:05,192][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [ua5xLr6] loaded module [lang-mustache] [2017-04-11T06:20:05,193][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [ua5xLr6] loaded module [lang-painless] [2017-04-11T06:20:05,193][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [ua5xLr6] loaded module [percolator] [2017-04-11T06:20:05,193][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [ua5xLr6] loaded module [reindex] [2017-04-11T06:20:05,193][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [ua5xLr6] loaded module [transport-netty3] [2017-04-11T06:20:05,193][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [ua5xLr6] loaded module [transport-netty4] [2017-04-11T06:20:05,194][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [ua5xLr6] no plugins loaded [2017-04-11T06:20:06,933][INFO][o.e.n.Node] initialized [2017-04-11T06:20:06,933][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [ua5xLr6] starting ... [2017-04-11T06:20:07,058][INFO][o.e.t.TransportService] [ua5xLr6] publish\_address {127.0.0.1:9300}, bound\_addresses {[::1]:9300}, {127.0.0.1:9300} [2017-04-11T06:20:07,063][WARN][o.e.b.BootstrapChecks] [ua5xLr6] max virtual memory areas vm.max\_map\_count [65530] is too low, increase to at least [262144] [2017-04-11T06:20:10,105][INFO][o.e.c.s.ClusterService] [ua5xLr6] new\_master {ua5xLr6}{ua5xLr6lRmSScDe8wKXyeg}{LK5yowMoQvqFaEleoR\_DFQ}{127.0.0.1}{127.0.0.1:9300}, reason: zen-disco-elected-as-master ([0] nodes joined) [2017-04-11T06:20:10,122][INFO][o.e.h.HttpServer] [ua5xLr6] publish\_address {127.0.0.1:9200}, bound\_addresses {[::1]:9200}, {127.0.0.1:9200} [2017-04-11T06:20:10,122][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [ua5xLr6] started [2017-04-11T06:20:10,136][INFO][o.e.g.GatewayService] [ua5xLr6] recovered [0] indices into cluster\_state ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 6:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-we-need-to-run-on-elasticsearch-it-will-giving-error/81473/7 "2017-04-11T06:48:24Z")
It's fine for development not for production. You'll need to fix bootstrap messages. ---
**Author:** ![bvnages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bvnages](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bvnages)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-we-need-to-run-on-elasticsearch-it-will-giving-error/81473/8 "2017-04-11T07:43:43Z")
How to fix bootstraps messages could you please tell me. ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 7:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-we-need-to-run-on-elasticsearch-it-will-giving-error/81473/9 "2017-04-11T19:08:25Z")
Just search for bootstrap in the docs. Everything is explained. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 7:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-we-need-to-run-on-elasticsearch-it-will-giving-error/81473/10 "2017-05-09T19:21:52Z")
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