I’m trying to start ES 9.0.2 as a service. Every time, the service fails with an error 143. One thing of note is that in the logs its telling me my license is not valid despite just using a basic license. I can start elasticsearch just fine using elasticsearch -d -p pid but not from a systemd unit f…

Failing to Start - License issue?

Tortoise January 11, 2026, 11:18am 2

Can you please share the logs where it shows that elasticsearch did not start & or it failed?

One similar post related to this issue is below if it can be helpful :

Thanks!!

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