# \[ERROR\]\[o.a.p.p.f.FileSystemFontProvider\] Error accessing the file system **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 30, 2018, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-o-a-p-p-f-filesystemfontprovider-error-accessing-the-file-system/154605 "2018-10-30T09:56:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![joel1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dbc845/32.png) [@joel1979](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joel1979)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-o-a-p-p-f-filesystemfontprovider-error-accessing-the-file-system/154605/1 "2018-10-30T09:56:12Z")
version[5.2.2], pid[1472], build[f9d9b74/2017-02-24T17:26:45.835Z], OS[Windows Server 2012 R2/6.3/amd64], JVM[Oracle Corporation/Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM/1.8.0\_66/25.66-b17] I noticed that ES is spamming errors in our production Environment and I am not sure what causes it, nor what problems (if any) our end users experience because of it. I searched the forum for topics similar to mine but could not find any solution or clues. Help is much appreciated. Posting the error message below. ``` [2018-10-30T08:24:01,155][ERROR][o.a.p.p.f.FileSystemFontProvider] Error accessing the file system java.security.AccessControlException: access denied ("java.io.FilePermission" "<>" "execute") at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.8.0_66] at java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.8.0_66] at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.8.0_66] at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkExec(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.8.0_66] at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.8.0_66] at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.8.0_66] at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.8.0_66] at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.8.0_66] at org.apache.fontbox.util.autodetect.WindowsFontDirFinder.getWinDir(WindowsFontDirFinder.java:47) ~[?:2.0.3] at org.apache.fontbox.util.autodetect.WindowsFontDirFinder.find(WindowsFontDirFinder.java:79) ~[?:2.0.3] at org.apache.fontbox.util.autodetect.FontFileFinder.find(FontFileFinder.java:74) ~[?:2.0.3] at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.FileSystemFontProvider.(FileSystemFontProvider.java:205) [?:2.0.3] at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.FontMapperImpl$DefaultFontProvider.(FontMapperImpl.java:130) [?:2.0.3] at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.FontMapperImpl.getProvider(FontMapperImpl.java:149) [?:2.0.3] at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.FontMapperImpl.findFont(FontMapperImpl.java:413) [?:2.0.3] at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.FontMapperImpl.getTrueTypeFont(FontMapperImpl.java:321) [?:2.0.3] at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDTrueTypeFont.(PDTrueTypeFont.java:198) [?:2.0.3] at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFontFactory.createFont(PDFontFactory.java:75) [?:2.0.3] at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDResources.getFont(PDResources.java:143) [?:2.0.3] at org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.operator.text.SetFontAndSize.process(SetFontAndSize.java:60) [?:2.0.3] at org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.PDFStreamEngine.processOperator(PDFStreamEngine.java:815) [?:2.0.3] at org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.PDFStreamEngine.processStreamOperators(PDFStreamEngine.java:472) [?:2.0.3] at org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.PDFStreamEngine.processStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:446) [?:2.0.3] at org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.PDFStreamEngine.processPage(PDFStreamEngine.java:149) [?:2.0.3] at org.apache.pdfbox.text.LegacyPDFStreamEngine.processPage(LegacyPDFStreamEngine.java:139) [?:2.0.3] at org.apache.pdfbox.text.PDFTextStripper.processPage(PDFTextStripper.java:391) [?:2.0.3] at org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDF2XHTML.processPage(PDF2XHTML.java:141) [?:1.14] at org.apache.pdfbox.text.PDFTextStripper.processPages(PDFTextStripper.java:319) [?:2.0.3] at org.apache.pdfbox.text.PDFTextStripper.writeText(PDFTextStripper.java:266) [?:2.0.3] at org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDF2XHTML.process(PDF2XHTML.java:111) [?:1.14] at org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParser.parse(PDFParser.java:150) [?:1.14] at org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:280) [?:1.14] at org.apache.tika.parser.AutoDetectParser.parse(AutoDetectParser.java:120) [?:1.14] at org.apache.tika.Tika.parseToString(Tika.java:568) [?:1.14] at org.elasticsearch.ingest.attachment.TikaImpl$1.run(TikaImpl.java:101) [?:5.2.2] at org.elasticsearch.ingest.attachment.TikaImpl$1.run(TikaImpl.java:98) [?:5.2.2] at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) ~[?:1.8.0_66] at org.elasticsearch.ingest.attachment.TikaImpl.parse(TikaImpl.java:98) [?:5.2.2] at org.elasticsearch.ingest.attachment.AttachmentProcessor.execute(AttachmentProcessor.java:86) [?:5.2.2] at org.elasticsearch.ingest.common.ForEachProcessor.execute(ForEachProcessor.java:64) [?:5.2.2] at org.elasticsearch.ingest.CompoundProcessor.execute(CompoundProcessor.java:100) [?:5.2.2] at org.elasticsearch.ingest.Pipeline.execute(Pipeline.java:58) [?:5.2.2] at org.elasticsearch.ingest.PipelineExecutionService.innerExecute(PipelineExecutionService.java:166) [?:5.2.2] at org.elasticsearch.ingest.PipelineExecutionService.access$000(PipelineExecutionService.java:41) [?:5.2.2] at org.elasticsearch.ingest.PipelineExecutionService$1.doRun(PipelineExecutionService.java:65) [?:5.2.2] at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ContextPreservingAbstractRunnable.doRun(ThreadContext.java:596) [?:5.2.2] at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.AbstractRunnable.run(AbstractRunnable.java:37) [?:5.2.2] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) [?:1.8.0_66] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) [?:1.8.0_66] at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) [?:1.8.0_66] [2018-10-30T08:24:01,170][WARN][o.a.p.p.f.PDTrueTypeFont] Using fallback font 'LiberationSans' for 'Arial-BoldMT' ``` ---
**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:** [October 30, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-o-a-p-p-f-filesystemfontprovider-error-accessing-the-file-system/154605/2 "2018-10-30T13:31:04Z")
Could you upgrade your elasticsearch version to at least the latest 5.6 version or better 6.4? IIRC this has been fixed. May be more details on > Although it can be something else. In which case, it would be good if you can reproduce the problem on 6.4.2 and share within a new issue the file which is causing that. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-o-a-p-p-f-filesystemfontprovider-error-accessing-the-file-system/154605/3 "2018-11-27T13:31:26Z")
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