# Fatal exception while booting Elasticsearchjava.nio.file.NoSuchFileException:

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fatal-exception-while-booting-elasticsearchjava-nio-file-nosuchfileexception/316603>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 14, 2022, 7:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fatal-exception-while-booting-elasticsearchjava-nio-file-nosuchfileexception/316603 "2022-10-14T07:25:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Arun\_Singh2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/arun_singh2/32/98119_2.png) [@Arun\_Singh2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arun_Singh2)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 7:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fatal-exception-while-booting-elasticsearchjava-nio-file-nosuchfileexception/316603/1 "2022-10-14T07:25:28Z")

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i cant find any way to solve this error  
java version on my laptop is 19 nad i have added ES dir to path also

these are logs --\>

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[2022-10-14T12:45:26,597][ERROR][o.e.b.Elasticsearch] [LT0148506] fatal exception while booting Elasticsearchjava.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: C:\Program Files (x86)\Documentum\DocLink\certjFIPS.jar
        at java.base/sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.translateToIOException(WindowsException.java:85)
        at java.base/sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.rethrowAsIOException(WindowsException.java:103)
        at java.base/sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.rethrowAsIOException(WindowsException.java:108)
        at java.base/sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileAttributeViews$Basic.readAttributes(WindowsFileAttributeViews.java:53)
        at java.base/sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileAttributeViews$Basic.readAttributes(WindowsFileAttributeViews.java:38)

See logs for more details.

ERROR: Elasticsearch did not exit normally - check the logs at C:\elasticsearch-8.4.3\logs\elasticsearch.log

ERROR: Elasticsearch exited unexpectedly

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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:** [October 17, 2022, 3:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fatal-exception-while-booting-elasticsearchjava-nio-file-nosuchfileexception/316603/2 "2022-10-17T03:31:34Z")

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Welcome to our community! 😃

I would try putting Elasticsearch into a directory with no spaces in the name.

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**Author:** ![Arun\_Singh2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/arun_singh2/32/98119_2.png) [@Arun\_Singh2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arun_Singh2)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 5:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fatal-exception-while-booting-elasticsearchjava-nio-file-nosuchfileexception/316603/3 "2022-10-17T05:50:31Z")

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thanks i will try

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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:** [November 14, 2022, 5:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fatal-exception-while-booting-elasticsearchjava-nio-file-nosuchfileexception/316603/4 "2022-11-14T05:51:01Z")

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