# ES 5.5.0 will not start up with gce discovery

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-5-0-will-not-start-up-with-gce-discovery/94541>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 25, 2017, 9:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-5-0-will-not-start-up-with-gce-discovery/94541 "2017-07-25T21:11:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![svanschalkwyk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@svanschalkwyk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/svanschalkwyk)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 9:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-5-0-will-not-start-up-with-gce-discovery/94541/1 "2017-07-25T21:11:20Z")

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My elasticsearch.yml looks like this:

```auto
cluster.name: gce-cluster
discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts:
- 104.198.44.16
- 35.184.239.42
http.port: 9200
network.host: _gce_
node.data: false
node.master: true
transport.tcp.port: 9300
node.name: 104.198.44.16-node1
cloud.gce.project_id: gc001-001
cloud.gce.zone: us-central1-a
discovery.type: gce
#################################### Paths ####################################
# Path to directory containing configuration (this file and logging.yml):
path.conf: /etc/elasticsearch/node1
path.data: /var/lib/elasticsearch/104.198.44.16-node1
path.logs: /var/log/elasticsearch/104.198.44.16-node1

```

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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:** [July 26, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-5-0-will-not-start-up-with-gce-discovery/94541/2 "2017-07-26T00:48:06Z")

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What's in the logs?

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**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:** [July 26, 2017, 12:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-5-0-will-not-start-up-with-gce-discovery/94541/3 "2017-07-26T00:51:28Z")

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And BTW this

```
discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts

```

Is useless in this context as GCE Plugin should set it instead.

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**Author:** ![svanschalkwyk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@svanschalkwyk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/svanschalkwyk)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 3:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-5-0-will-not-start-up-with-gce-discovery/94541/4 "2017-07-26T03:34:30Z")

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Hi. Doesn't get to the log part. I think I may have the issue, will post later tonight.

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**Author:** ![svanschalkwyk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@svanschalkwyk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/svanschalkwyk)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 3:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-5-0-will-not-start-up-with-gce-discovery/94541/5 "2017-07-26T03:46:46Z")

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Thanks, will try that now.

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**Author:** ![svanschalkwyk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@svanschalkwyk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/svanschalkwyk)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 4:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-5-0-will-not-start-up-with-gce-discovery/94541/6 "2017-07-26T04:46:39Z")

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Cannot start. My elasticsearch.yml looks like this:

```auto
bootstrap.memory_lock: false
cluster.name: gce-cluster
http.port: 9200
network.host: _gce_
node.data: false
node.master: true
transport.tcp.port: 9300
node.name: 104.198.35.192-node1
cloud.gce.project_id: gc001-001
cloud.gce.zone: us-central1-a
discovery.type: gce
path.conf: /etc/elasticsearch/node1
path.data: /var/lib/elasticsearch/104.198.35.192-node1
path.logs: /var/log/elasticsearch/104.198.35.192-node1

```

I have 1.5g as the es heap size.

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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:** [July 26, 2017, 4:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-5-0-will-not-start-up-with-gce-discovery/94541/7 "2017-07-26T04:51:52Z")

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What's in the logs?

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**Author:** ![svanschalkwyk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@svanschalkwyk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/svanschalkwyk)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 4:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-5-0-will-not-start-up-with-gce-discovery/94541/8 "2017-07-26T04:52:56Z")

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Update: this was without ``Compute RW```

Which account is gce-discovery running under?

```auto
[2017-07-26T03:52:42,888][INFO][o.e.c.g.GceInstancesServiceImpl] [104.198.35.192-node1] starting GCE discovery
 service
[2017-07-26T03:52:43,409][WARN][o.e.c.g.GceInstancesServiceImpl] [104.198.35.192-node1] Problem fetching insta
nce list for zone us-central1-a
java.security.PrivilegedActionException: null
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) ~[?:1.8.0_131]
        at org.elasticsearch.cloud.gce.GceInstancesServiceImpl.lambda$instances$1(GceInstancesServiceImpl.java:
75) ~[?:?]
        at java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$3$1.accept(ReferencePipeline.java:193) [?:1.8.0_131]
        at java.util.ArrayList$ArrayListSpliterator.forEachRemaining(ArrayList.java:1374) [?:1.8.0_131]
        at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:481) [?:1.8.0_131]
        at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.wrapAndCopyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:471) [?:1.8.0_131]
        at java.util.stream.ReduceOps$ReduceOp.evaluateSequential(ReduceOps.java:708) [?:1.8.0_131]
        at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluate(AbstractPipeline.java:234) [?:1.8.0_131]
        at java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.reduce(ReferencePipeline.java:474) [?:1.8.0_131]
        at org.elasticsearch.cloud.gce.GceInstancesServiceImpl.instances(GceInstancesServiceImpl.java:91) [disc
overy-gce-5.5.0.jar:5.5.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.discovery.gce.GceUnicastHostsProvider.buildDynamicNodes(GceUnicastHostsProvider.ja
va:134) [discovery-gce-5.5.0.jar:5.5.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.discovery.zen.UnicastZenPing.ping(UnicastZenPing.java:309) [elasticsearch-5.5.0.ja
r:5.5.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.discovery.zen.UnicastZenPing.ping(UnicastZenPing.java:286) [elasticsearch-5.5.0.ja
r:5.5.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.discovery.zen.ZenDiscovery.pingAndWait(ZenDiscovery.java:1010) [elasticsearch-5.5.
0.jar:5.5.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.discovery.zen.ZenDiscovery.findMaster(ZenDiscovery.java:869) [elasticsearch-5.5.0.
jar:5.5.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.discovery.zen.ZenDiscovery.innerJoinCluster(ZenDiscovery.java:378) [elasticsearch-
5.5.0.jar:5.5.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.discovery.zen.ZenDiscovery.access$4100(ZenDiscovery.java:83) [elasticsearch-5.5.0.
jar:5.5.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.discovery.zen.ZenDiscovery$JoinThreadControl$1.run(ZenDiscovery.java:1188) [elasti
csearch-5.5.0.jar:5.5.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ContextPreservingRunnable.run(ThreadContext.j
ava:569) [elasticsearch-5.5.0.jar:5.5.0]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) [?:1.8.0_131]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) [?:1.8.0_131]
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [?:1.8.0_131]
Caused by: com.google.api.client.googleapis.json.GoogleJsonResponseException: 403 Forbidden
{
  "code" : 403,
  "errors" : [ {
    "domain" : "global",
    "message" : "Insufficient Permission",
    "reason" : "insufficientPermissions"
  } ],
  "message" : "Insufficient Permission"
}
        at com.google.api.client.googleapis.json.GoogleJsonResponseException.from(GoogleJsonResponseException.j
ava:145) ~[?:?]
        at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.json.AbstractGoogleJsonClientRequest.newExceptionOnError(A
bstractGoogleJsonClientRequest.java:113) ~[?:?]
        at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.json.AbstractGoogleJsonClientRequest.newExceptionOnError(A
bstractGoogleJsonClientRequest.java:40) ~[?:?]
        at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.AbstractGoogleClientRequest$1.interceptResponse(AbstractGo
ogleClientRequest.java:321) ~[?:?]
        at com.google.api.client.http.HttpRequest.execute(HttpRequest.java:1056) ~[?:?]
        at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.AbstractGoogleClientRequest.executeUnparsed(AbstractGoogle
ClientRequest.java:419) ~[?:?]
        at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.AbstractGoogleClientRequest.executeUnparsed(AbstractGoogle
ClientRequest.java:352) ~[?:?]
        at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.AbstractGoogleClientRequest.execute(AbstractGoogleClientRe
quest.java:469) ~[?:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.cloud.gce.GceInstancesServiceImpl$1.run(GceInstancesServiceImpl.java:79) ~[?:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.cloud.gce.GceInstancesServiceImpl$1.run(GceInstancesServiceImpl.java:75) ~[?:?]
        ... 22 more
[2017-07-26T03:52:43,425][WARN][o.e.c.g.GceInstancesServiceImpl] [104.198.35.192-node1] disabling GCE discover
y. Can not get list of nodes

```

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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:** [July 26, 2017, 5:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-5-0-will-not-start-up-with-gce-discovery/94541/9 "2017-07-26T05:11:29Z")

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Did you set it all up as per the chapters of [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/5.5/discovery-gce.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/5.5/discovery-gce.html)

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**Author:** ![svanschalkwyk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@svanschalkwyk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/svanschalkwyk)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 5:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-5-0-will-not-start-up-with-gce-discovery/94541/10 "2017-07-26T05:32:31Z")

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Yes. `Compute Engine	Read Write`

```auto

bootstrap.memory_lock: false
cluster.name: gce-cluster
http.port: 9200
network.host: _gce_
node.data: false
node.master: true
transport.tcp.port: 9300
node.name: 35.184.239.42-node1
cloud.gce.project_id: gc001-001
cloud.gce.zone: us-central1-a
discovery.type: gce
# Path to directory containing configuration (this file and logging.yml):
path.conf: /etc/elasticsearch/node1
path.data: /var/lib/elasticsearch/35.184.239.42-node1
path.logs: /var/log/elasticsearch/35.184.239.42-node1

```

plugin is installed:

```auto
ls /usr/share/elasticsearch/plugins/
discovery-gce

```

Times out waiting for startup. NO LOGS.

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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:** [July 26, 2017, 5:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-5-0-will-not-start-up-with-gce-discovery/94541/11 "2017-07-26T05:54:25Z")

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What about [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/5.5/discovery-gce-usage-long.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/5.5/discovery-gce-usage-long.html), because it links to [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/5.5/discovery-gce-usage-tips.html#discovery-gce-usage-tips-permissions](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/5.5/discovery-gce-usage-tips.html#discovery-gce-usage-tips-permissions) which seems to be what you are experiencing (from what I can see).

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**Author:** ![S111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@S111](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/S111)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 6:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-5-0-will-not-start-up-with-gce-discovery/94541/12 "2017-07-26T06:10:40Z")

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Thanks. I've done all of that. Es runs fine without the gce parts. Problem is no logs are being produced, which is rather peculiar.

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**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:** [July 26, 2017, 11:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-5-0-will-not-start-up-with-gce-discovery/94541/13 "2017-07-26T11:25:06Z")

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But can you share your logs even if you don't see anything in them?

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**Author:** ![S111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@S111](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/S111)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 1:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-5-0-will-not-start-up-with-gce-discovery/94541/14 "2017-07-26T13:07:05Z")

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There are no log files

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**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:** [July 26, 2017, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-5-0-will-not-start-up-with-gce-discovery/94541/15 "2017-07-26T15:29:34Z")

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That would mean that your elasticsearch.yml file is totally broken.

What are the logs without gce plugin? Can you share them?

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**Author:** ![svanschalkwyk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@svanschalkwyk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/svanschalkwyk)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 4:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-5-0-will-not-start-up-with-gce-discovery/94541/16 "2017-07-26T16:46:05Z")

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Seems to be the "network.host" setting. ES cannot bind to any of the (underscore)site(underscore)", network interface, (underscore)gce(underscore) etc. bindings, so startup fails. network.host: "(underscore)local(underscore)" (the default) works and ES starts up.

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**Author:** ![svanschalkwyk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@svanschalkwyk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/svanschalkwyk)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 4:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-5-0-will-not-start-up-with-gce-discovery/94541/17 "2017-07-26T16:49:09Z")

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This is my environment:  
Using GCE.  
Using Ansible 2.4.0 to provision instances in GCE.

OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0\_131-8u131-b11-2ubuntu1.17.04.2-b11)  
es\_version: "5.5.0"  
es\_heap\_size: "2g"  
Plugins: discovery-gce```

elasticsearch.yml :

```auto
cluster.name: gce-cluster
http.port: 9200
network.host: _gce_
node.data: true
node.master: true
transport.tcp.port: 9300
node.name: 35.188.41.199-node1
cloud.gce.project_id: gc001-001
cloud.gce.zone: us-central1-a
discovery.type: gce
path.conf: /etc/elasticsearch/node1
path.data: /var/lib/elasticsearch/35.188.41.199-node1
path.logs: /var/log/elasticsearch/35.188.41.199-node1

Observed behaviour:
ES will not restart after installation of discovery-gce.

Expected behaviour:
ES starts up.
```

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**Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-5-0-will-not-start-up-with-gce-discovery/94541/18 "2017-07-26T17:00:03Z")

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Please format your code using `</>` icon as explained in [this guide](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-elasticsearch-category/21). It will make your post more readable.

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I'm pretty sure that if it fails when trying to define the network card to listen on, then you have logs.  
Please check again your elasticsearch logs and share them.

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**Author:** ![svanschalkwyk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@svanschalkwyk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/svanschalkwyk)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 5:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-5-0-will-not-start-up-with-gce-discovery/94541/19 "2017-07-26T17:36:18Z")

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I went back to ES 5.2.2 and ES is starting up with the gce-discovery plug in.  
You are correct in that it fails to bind to a transport.  
Looking at my FW rules now.  
This from /var/log/elasticsearch/104.155.150.140-node1/gce-cluster.log :  
`[2017-07-26T17:21:15,397][INFO][o.e.c.g.GceInstancesServiceImpl] [node1] starting GCE discovery service [2017-07-26T17:21:19,050][INFO][o.e.c.g.GceInstancesServiceImpl] [node1] starting GCE discovery service [2017-07-26T17:21:45,375][WARN][o.e.n.Node] [node1] timed out while waiting for initial discovery state - timeout: 30s [2017-07-26T17:21:45,385][INFO][o.e.h.HttpServer] [node1] publish_address {127.0.0.1:9200}, bound_addresses {[::1]:9200}, {127.0.0.1:9200} [2017-07-26T17:21:45,385][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [node1] started [2017-07-26T17:27:28,976][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [node1] stopping ... [2017-07-26T17:27:29,059][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [node1] stopped [2017-07-26T17:27:29,059][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [node1] closing ... [2017-07-26T17:27:29,117][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [node1] closed [2017-07-26T17:28:08,874][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [node1] initializing ... [2017-07-26T17:28:09,053][INFO][o.e.e.NodeEnvironment] [node1] using [1] data paths, mounts [[/ (/dev/sda1)]], net usable_space [8gb], net total_space [9.5g b], spins? [possibly], types [ext4] [2017-07-26T17:28:09,053][INFO][o.e.e.NodeEnvironment] [node1] heap size [1007.3mb], compressed ordinary object pointers [true] [2017-07-26T17:28:09,055][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [node1] node name [node1], node ID [LhgPfp8-QXq2JCPgJBmLtQ] [2017-07-26T17:28:09,060][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [node1] version[5.2.2], pid[1631], build[f9d9b74/2017-02-24T17:26:45.835Z], OS[Linux/4.10.0-28-generi c/amd64], JVM[Oracle Corporation/OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM/1.8.0_131/25.131-b11] [2017-07-26T17:28:11,458][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [node1] loaded module [aggs-matrix-stats] [2017-07-26T17:28:11,459][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [node1] loaded module [ingest-common] [2017-07-26T17:28:11,459][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [node1] loaded module [lang-expression] [2017-07-26T17:28:11,460][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [node1] loaded module [lang-groovy] [2017-07-26T17:28:11,460][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [node1] loaded module [lang-mustache] [2017-07-26T17:28:11,460][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [node1] loaded module [lang-painless] [2017-07-26T17:28:11,460][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [node1] loaded module [percolator] [2017-07-26T17:28:11,460][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [node1] loaded module [reindex] [2017-07-26T17:28:11,460][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [node1] loaded module [transport-netty3] [2017-07-26T17:28:11,460][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [node1] loaded module [transport-netty4] [2017-07-26T17:28:11,461][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [node1] loaded plugin [discovery-gce] [2017-07-26T17:28:15,556][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [node1] initialized [2017-07-26T17:28:15,556][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [node1] starting ... [2017-07-26T17:28:16,226][WARN][i.n.u.i.MacAddressUtil] Failed to find a usable hardware address from the network interfaces; using random bytes: 4e:d4:eb:42 :cd:ff:32:72 [2017-07-26T17:28:16,345][INFO][o.e.t.TransportService] [node1] publish_address {10.128.0.3:9300}, bound_addresses {10.128.0.3:9300} [2017-07-26T17:28:16,351][INFO][o.e.b.BootstrapChecks] [node1] bound or publishing to a non-loopback or non-link-local address, enforcing bootstrap checks [2017-07-26T17:28:16,453][INFO][o.e.c.g.GceInstancesServiceImpl] [node1] starting GCE discovery service [2017-07-26T17:28:20,330][INFO][o.e.c.g.GceInstancesServiceImpl] [node1] starting GCE discovery service [2017-07-26T17:28:46,394][WARN][o.e.n.Node] [node1] timed out while waiting for initial discovery state - timeout: 30s [2017-07-26T17:28:46,453][INFO][o.e.h.HttpServer] [node1] publish_address {10.128.0.3:9200}, bound_addresses {10.128.0.3:9200} [2017-07-26T17:28:46,453][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [node1] started`

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**Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 6:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-5-5-0-will-not-start-up-with-gce-discovery/94541/20 "2017-07-26T18:01:28Z")

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I have these ports open in the FW.  
`NAME NETWORK SRC_RANGES RULES SRC_TAGS TARGET_TAGS default-allow-icmp default 0.0.0.0/0 icmp default-allow-internal default 10.128.0.0/9 tcp:0-65535,udp:0-65535,icmp default-allow-rdp default 0.0.0.0/0 tcp:3389 default-allow-ssh default 0.0.0.0/0 tcp:22 rule-9200 default 10.128.0.0/9 tcp:9200 rule-9300 default 10.128.0.0/9 tcp:9300 rule-9300-udp default 10.128.0.0/9 udp:9300`  
And I still get this from /var/log/elasticsearch/104.155.150.140-node1/gce-cluster.log :

`[2017-07-26T17:49:33,240][WARN][i.n.u.i.MacAddressUtil] Failed to find a usable hardware address from the network interfaces; using random bytes: ec:51:31:d0 :5a:f9:22:ad [2017-07-26T17:49:33,346][INFO][o.e.t.TransportService] [node1] publish_address {10.128.0.3:9300}, bound_addresses {10.128.0.3:9300} [2017-07-26T17:49:33,353][INFO][o.e.b.BootstrapChecks] [node1] bound or publishing to a non-loopback or non-link-local address, enforcing bootstrap checks [2017-07-26T17:49:33,447][INFO][o.e.c.g.GceInstancesServiceImpl] [node1] starting GCE discovery service [2017-07-26T17:49:37,209][INFO][o.e.c.g.GceInstancesServiceImpl] [node1] starting GCE discovery service [2017-07-26T17:50:03,386][WARN][o.e.n.Node] [node1] timed out while waiting for initial discovery state - timeout: 30s [2017-07-26T17:50:03,439][INFO][o.e.h.HttpServer] [node1] publish_address {10.128.0.3:9200}, bound_addresses {10.128.0.3:9200} [2017-07-26T17:50:03,439][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [node1] started`

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