ES 5.3 (CentOs7) Adding another path.data giving permission error

[umir1 (Umar Mir)]

After updating on ES 5.3, i added another data path but it is giving error. Unable to access 'path.data' .
To resolve permission issue i already used this command chown -R elasticsearch:elasticsearch /home/elk/data but getting same error

OS: CentOs7

While Checking ES Status

● elasticsearch.service - Elasticsearch
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2017-04-03 06:02:48 EDT; 8min ago
Docs: http://www.elastic.co
Process: 20805 ExecStart=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -p ${PID_DIR}/elasticsearch.pid --quiet -Edefault.path.logs=${LOG_DIR} -Edefault.path.data=${DATA_DIR} -Edefault.path.conf=${CONF_DIR} (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Process: 20803 ExecStartPre=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-systemd-pre-exec (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 20805 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Apr 03 06:02:21 ELK-VM01 systemd[1]: Starting Elasticsearch...
Apr 03 06:02:21 ELK-VM01 systemd[1]: Started Elasticsearch.
Apr 03 06:02:48 ELK-VM01 systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Apr 03 06:02:48 ELK-VM01 systemd[1]: Unit elasticsearch.service entered failed state.
Apr 03 06:02:48 ELK-VM01 systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service failed.

From Logs

[2017-04-03T06:02:48,498][ERROR][o.e.b.Bootstrap ] Exception
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to access 'path.data' (/home/elk/data)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Security.addPath(Security.java:373) ~[elasticsearch-5.3.0.jar:5.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Security.addFilePermissions(Security.java:253) ~[elasticsearch-5.3.0.jar:5.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Security.createPermissions(Security.java:209) ~[elasticsearch-5.3.0.jar:5.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Security.configure(Security.java:115) ~[elasticsearch-5.3.0.jar:5.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:237) ~[elasticsearch-5.3.0.jar:5.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:360) [elasticsearch-5.3.0.jar:5.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:123) [elasticsearch-5.3.0.jar:5.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:114) [elasticsearch-5.3.0.jar:5.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:58) [elasticsearch-5.3.0.jar:5.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:122) [elasticsearch-5.3.0.jar:5.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:88) [elasticsearch-5.3.0.jar:5.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:91) [elasticsearch-5.3.0.jar:5.3.0]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:84) [elasticsearch-5.3.0.jar:5.3.0]
Caused by: java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /home/elk/data
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:84) ~[?:1.8.0_73]
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102) ~[?:1.8.0_73]
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:107) ~[?:1.8.0_73]
at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.createDirectory(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:384) ~[?:1.8.0_73]
at java.nio.file.Files.createDirectory(Files.java:674) ~[?:1.8.0_73]
at java.nio.file.Files.createAndCheckIsDirectory(Files.java:781) ~[?:1.8.0_73]

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

Is the user you are starting Elasticsearch with called elasticsearch?

[umir1 (Umar Mir)]

elasticsearch is just default user of elasticsearch group

[nik9000 (Nik Everett)]

I'd double check that I can touch a file in that directory as the Elasticsearch user. And that Elasticsearch as running as that user. If both of those look good and Elasticsearch can't write to it then I'd open an issue about it. Bonus points if your reproduction runs agains the a clean VM like the one you get by running vagrant up ubuntu 1604 in the Elasticsearch repo.