# Error in start of elasticsearch on ubuntu \[first installation\]

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-start-of-elasticsearch-on-ubuntu-first-installation/258528>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 14, 2020, 3:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-start-of-elasticsearch-on-ubuntu-first-installation/258528 "2020-12-14T03:47:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![vlsireddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c77e96/32.png) [@vlsireddy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vlsireddy)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 3:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-start-of-elasticsearch-on-ubuntu-first-installation/258528/1 "2020-12-14T03:47:10Z")

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HI,

[1] I Installed elastic search and tried starting it and i see this error.

kryogen@Ubuntu:~/Documents/elastic/elasticsearch-7.10.1$ ./bin/elasticsearch  
Exception in thread "main" SettingsException[Failed to load settings from /home/kryogen/Documents/elastic/elasticsearch-7.10.1/config/elasticsearch.yml]; nested: AccessDeniedException[/home/kryogen/Documents/elastic/elasticsearch-7.10.1/config/elasticsearch.yml];  
at org.elasticsearch.node.InternalSettingsPreparer.prepareEnvironment(InternalSettingsPreparer.java:85)  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.createEnv(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:100)  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.createEnv(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:91)  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86)  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:127)  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.MultiCommand.execute(MultiCommand.java:91)  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:127)  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.KeyStoreCli.main(KeyStoreCli.java:43)  
Caused by: java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /home/kryogen/Documents/elastic/elasticsearch-7.10.1/config/elasticsearch.yml  
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:90)  
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:111)  
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:116)  
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newByteChannel(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:219)  
at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.newByteChannel(Files.java:370)  
at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.newByteChannel(Files.java:421)  
at java.base/java.nio.file.spi.FileSystemProvid

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er.newInputStream(FileSystemProvider.java:420)  
at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.newInputStream(Files.java:155)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Settings$Builder.loadFromPath(Settings.java:1086)  
at org.elasticsearch.node.InternalSettingsPreparer.prepareEnvironment(InternalSettingsPreparer.java:83)  
... 8 more  
Exception in thread "main" java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /home/kryogen/Documents/elastic/elasticsearch-7.10.1/config/jvm.options.d  
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:90)  
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:111)  
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:116)  
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newDirectoryStream(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:432)  
at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.newDirectoryStream(Files.java:539)  
at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmOptionsParser.readJvmOptionsFiles(JvmOptionsParser.java:156)  
at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmOptionsParser.jvmOptions(JvmOptionsParser.java:128)  
at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmOptionsParser.main(JvmOptionsParser.java:95)

Thanks

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 4:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-start-of-elasticsearch-on-ubuntu-first-installation/258528/2 "2020-12-14T04:01:55Z")

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Welcome to our community! 😃

> [@vlsireddy](#):
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> Caused by: java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /home/kryogen/Documents/elastic/elasticsearch-7.10.1/config/elasticsearch.yml

I would start by checking this.

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**Author:** ![Conrrad\_Martinez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/conrrad_martinez/32/78413_2.png) [@Conrrad\_Martinez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Conrrad_Martinez)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 11:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-start-of-elasticsearch-on-ubuntu-first-installation/258528/3 "2020-12-14T11:29:10Z")

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hi, what is the solution please?

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**Author:** ![vlsireddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c77e96/32.png) [@vlsireddy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vlsireddy)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-start-of-elasticsearch-on-ubuntu-first-installation/258528/4 "2020-12-15T19:55:33Z")

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HI,  
Any update on this issue. I tried in uninstalling and installing again. same issue.

Thanks

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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:** [January 12, 2021, 7:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-start-of-elasticsearch-on-ubuntu-first-installation/258528/5 "2021-01-12T19:56:10Z")

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