I installed a brand new single node dev cluster of ES 7.3 earlier this week from the yum repository and ran a yum update to update the stack to 7.4 When i try to run service elasticsearch start i get a timeout, but no errors in the ES logs are anything that could point to a specific issue with the …

followed instructions regarding setting the service timeout from here and set the TimeoutStartSec=900 and it worked.

Elastisearch timeout on service start after yum update from 7.3 to 7.4

smahmud (Shahid Mahmud) October 2, 2019, 2:13am 3

I guess its memory related, stopped kibana & logstash, and then started elasticsearch, and it did start without any issues

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Elasticsearch not starting on boot

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