Error for /bin/elasticsearch -f

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1

Hello,

I've downloaded and unzipped the source for elastic search onto Ubuntu
Karmic 9.10. But, when I try to run :

bin/elasticsearch -f

I get the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
org/elasticsearch/bootstrap/Bootstrap
...
Could not find the main class: org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.
Program will exit.

The full error message can be seen in the screenshot image attachment.

Is there a problem with Java. I installed Java 6 smoothly via :

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin

Should I install something additional? Should I configure
ElasticSearch a certain way?

Thanks in advance.

2

When you use elasticsearch from source, you can't executed the script and
start it. You need to build a distribution of elasticsearch and then use it.
Execute "gradlew release" and you will find the distribution under
build/distribution.

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Ted Karmel ted.karmel@gmail.com wrote:

Hello,

I've downloaded and unzipped the source for Elasticsearch onto Ubuntu
Karmic 9.10. But, when I try to run :

bin/elasticsearch -f

I get the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
org/elasticsearch/bootstrap/Bootstrap
...
Could not find the main class: org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.
Program will exit.

The full error message can be seen in the screenshot image attachment.

Is there a problem with Java. I installed Java 6 smoothly via :

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin

Should I install something additional? Should I configure
Elasticsearch a certain way?

Thanks in advance.

3

Thanks for the reply Shay. Sorry I am not familiar with gradlew and I
get the error:

command not found

Is there a good source from where to install gradle or gradlew?

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

When you use elasticsearch from source, you can't executed the script and
start it. You need to build a distribution of elasticsearch and then use it.
Execute "gradlew release" and you will find the distribution under
build/distribution.

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Ted Karmel ted.karmel@gmail.com wrote:

Hello,

I've downloaded and unzipped the source for Elasticsearch onto Ubuntu
Karmic 9.10. But, when I try to run :

bin/elasticsearch -f

I get the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
org/elasticsearch/bootstrap/Bootstrap
...
Could not find the main class: org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.
Program will exit.

The full error message can be seen in the screenshot image attachment.

Is there a problem with Java. I installed Java 6 smoothly via :

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin

Should I install something additional? Should I configure
Elasticsearch a certain way?

Thanks in advance.

4

gradlew comes with the source, its at the root of it.

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Ted Karmel ted.karmel@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks for the reply Shay. Sorry I am not familiar with gradlew and I
get the error:

command not found

Is there a good source from where to install gradle or gradlew?

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

When you use elasticsearch from source, you can't executed the script and
start it. You need to build a distribution of elasticsearch and then use
it.
Execute "gradlew release" and you will find the distribution under
build/distribution.

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Ted Karmel ted.karmel@gmail.com
wrote:

Hello,

I've downloaded and unzipped the source for Elasticsearch onto Ubuntu
Karmic 9.10. But, when I try to run :

bin/elasticsearch -f

I get the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
org/elasticsearch/bootstrap/Bootstrap
...
Could not find the main class: org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.
Program will exit.

The full error message can be seen in the screenshot image attachment.

Is there a problem with Java. I installed Java 6 smoothly via :

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin

Should I install something additional? Should I configure
Elasticsearch a certain way?

Thanks in advance.

5

Hi Shay,

Thanks for your reply. It seems I just had some JAVA_HOME environment
variable problems. I sorted that out however.

I get a successful build after executing gradlew. But, I receive an
error for bin/elasticsearch -f (see attached screenshot image).

Do you think that is still a problem with Java? Or have I configured
something incorrectly?

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

gradlew comes with the source, its at the root of it.

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Ted Karmel ted.karmel@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks for the reply Shay. Sorry I am not familiar with gradlew and I
get the error:

command not found

Is there a good source from where to install gradle or gradlew?

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

When you use elasticsearch from source, you can't executed the script
and
start it. You need to build a distribution of elasticsearch and then use
it.
Execute "gradlew release" and you will find the distribution under
build/distribution.

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Ted Karmel ted.karmel@gmail.com
wrote:

Hello,

I've downloaded and unzipped the source for Elasticsearch onto Ubuntu
Karmic 9.10. But, when I try to run :

bin/elasticsearch -f

I get the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
org/elasticsearch/bootstrap/Bootstrap
...
Could not find the main class: org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.
Program will exit.

The full error message can be seen in the screenshot image attachment.

Is there a problem with Java. I installed Java 6 smoothly via :

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin

Should I install something additional? Should I configure
Elasticsearch a certain way?

Thanks in advance.

6

You can't executed bin/elasticsearch -f from within the source distribution.
You need to extract the distribution built under build/distributions and use
that.

-shay.banon

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Ted Karmel ted.karmel@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Shay,

Thanks for your reply. It seems I just had some JAVA_HOME environment
variable problems. I sorted that out however.

I get a successful build after executing gradlew. But, I receive an
error for bin/elasticsearch -f (see attached screenshot image).

Do you think that is still a problem with Java? Or have I configured
something incorrectly?

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

gradlew comes with the source, its at the root of it.

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Ted Karmel ted.karmel@gmail.com
wrote:

Thanks for the reply Shay. Sorry I am not familiar with gradlew and I
get the error:

command not found

Is there a good source from where to install gradle or gradlew?

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

When you use elasticsearch from source, you can't executed the script
and
start it. You need to build a distribution of elasticsearch and then
use
it.
Execute "gradlew release" and you will find the distribution under
build/distribution.

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Ted Karmel ted.karmel@gmail.com
wrote:

Hello,

I've downloaded and unzipped the source for Elasticsearch onto
Ubuntu
Karmic 9.10. But, when I try to run :

bin/elasticsearch -f

I get the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
org/elasticsearch/bootstrap/Bootstrap
...
Could not find the main class: org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.
Program will exit.

The full error message can be seen in the screenshot image
attachment.

Is there a problem with Java. I installed Java 6 smoothly via :

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin

Should I install something additional? Should I configure
Elasticsearch a certain way?

Thanks in advance.

7

Woohoo! Beautiful. Bonsai Beautiful!

Pardon the noobiness of the question and thanks again Shay for putting
up with them.

I'll put together an EC2 AMI for the community in case people just
want to whip up a quick instance to do a basic test of elasticsearch.

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

You can't executed bin/elasticsearch -f from within the source distribution.
You need to extract the distribution built under build/distributions and use
that.
-shay.banon

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Ted Karmel ted.karmel@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Shay,

Thanks for your reply. It seems I just had some JAVA_HOME environment
variable problems. I sorted that out however.

I get a successful build after executing gradlew. But, I receive an
error for bin/elasticsearch -f (see attached screenshot image).

Do you think that is still a problem with Java? Or have I configured
something incorrectly?

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

gradlew comes with the source, its at the root of it.

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Ted Karmel ted.karmel@gmail.com
wrote:

Thanks for the reply Shay. Sorry I am not familiar with gradlew and I
get the error:

command not found

Is there a good source from where to install gradle or gradlew?

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

When you use elasticsearch from source, you can't executed the script
and
start it. You need to build a distribution of elasticsearch and then
use
it.
Execute "gradlew release" and you will find the distribution under
build/distribution.

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Ted Karmel ted.karmel@gmail.com
wrote:

Hello,

I've downloaded and unzipped the source for Elasticsearch onto
Ubuntu
Karmic 9.10. But, when I try to run :

bin/elasticsearch -f

I get the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
org/elasticsearch/bootstrap/Bootstrap
...
Could not find the main class:
org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.
Program will exit.

The full error message can be seen in the screenshot image
attachment.

Is there a problem with Java. I installed Java 6 smoothly via :

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin

Should I install something additional? Should I configure
Elasticsearch a certain way?

Thanks in advance.

8

Sounds good!. By the way, the main drawback I found to great the best AMI is
the ability to pass (or get) the user credentials to the machine starting so
automatic ec2 discovery will work and (optionally) s3 gateway.

Also, I do hope to find how to get gradle to fork a java process that will
be elasticsearch so there won't be a need to build a distribution just
something like "gradlew run".

-shay.banon

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Ted Karmel ted.karmel@gmail.com wrote:

Woohoo! Beautiful. Bonsai Beautiful!

Pardon the noobiness of the question and thanks again Shay for putting
up with them.

I'll put together an EC2 AMI for the community in case people just
want to whip up a quick instance to do a basic test of elasticsearch.

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

You can't executed bin/elasticsearch -f from within the source
distribution.
You need to extract the distribution built under build/distributions and
use
that.
-shay.banon

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Ted Karmel ted.karmel@gmail.com
wrote:

Hi Shay,

Thanks for your reply. It seems I just had some JAVA_HOME environment
variable problems. I sorted that out however.

I get a successful build after executing gradlew. But, I receive an
error for bin/elasticsearch -f (see attached screenshot image).

Do you think that is still a problem with Java? Or have I configured
something incorrectly?

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

gradlew comes with the source, its at the root of it.

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Ted Karmel ted.karmel@gmail.com
wrote:

Thanks for the reply Shay. Sorry I am not familiar with gradlew and
I
get the error:

command not found

Is there a good source from where to install gradle or gradlew?

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

When you use elasticsearch from source, you can't executed the
script
and
start it. You need to build a distribution of elasticsearch and
then
use
it.
Execute "gradlew release" and you will find the distribution under
build/distribution.

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Ted Karmel <ted.karmel@gmail.com

wrote:

Hello,

I've downloaded and unzipped the source for Elasticsearch onto
Ubuntu
Karmic 9.10. But, when I try to run :

bin/elasticsearch -f

I get the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
org/elasticsearch/bootstrap/Bootstrap
...
Could not find the main class:
org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.
Program will exit.

The full error message can be seen in the screenshot image
attachment.

Is there a problem with Java. I installed Java 6 smoothly via :

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin

Should I install something additional? Should I configure
Elasticsearch a certain way?

Thanks in advance.