# Facing issue while starting elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facing-issue-while-starting-elasticsearch/160507>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 12, 2018, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facing-issue-while-starting-elasticsearch/160507 "2018-12-12T09:36:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![johnrabi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/johnrabi/32/67223_2.png) [@johnrabi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johnrabi)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facing-issue-while-starting-elasticsearch/160507/1 "2018-12-12T09:36:08Z")

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Hi Team,

i am facing issue , while starting the elasticsearch

at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:86)  
Caused by: ParsingException[Failed to parse object: expecting token of type [START\_OBJECT] but found [VALUE\_STRING]]org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentParserUtils.ensureExpectedToken(XContentParserUtils.java:78)

can anyone help me to resolve this issue?

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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:** [December 12, 2018, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facing-issue-while-starting-elasticsearch/160507/2 "2018-12-12T09:47:35Z")

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Did you touch any setting?

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**Author:** ![johnrabi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/johnrabi/32/67223_2.png) [@johnrabi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johnrabi)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 9:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facing-issue-while-starting-elasticsearch/160507/3 "2018-12-12T09:53:04Z")

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Yes @dadoonet , i have added path.repo in .yml file . after cant able to restart the Es facing exception.

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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:** [December 12, 2018, 10:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facing-issue-while-starting-elasticsearch/160507/4 "2018-12-12T10:16:17Z")

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Remove the setting and start again.

If it works then you know what you need to fix.

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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 9, 2019, 10:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facing-issue-while-starting-elasticsearch/160507/5 "2019-01-09T10:16:17Z")

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