# Filebeat 5.6 error

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-5-6-error/114602>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [January 8, 2018, 7:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-5-6-error/114602 "2018-01-08T19:41:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Samuel\_Miller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Samuel\_Miller](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Samuel_Miller)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 7:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-5-6-error/114602/1 "2018-01-08T19:41:16Z")

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I'm seeing the error below, it looks extremely similar to  
[Error when reloading prospectors for filebeat - #7 by ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-reloading-prospectors-for-filebeat/83082/7) ([Filebeat: Live Reload incorrectly stops prospectors · Issue #4133 · elastic/beats · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/4133)) , which was apparently resolved, but I'm still seeing the error in Filebeat 5.6. Is there any way to resolve this?

> 2018-01-08T19:36:17Z ERR Error loading states for prospector 10998142644621256744: Can only start a prospector when all related states are finished: {Source:/logs/containers/ed498d049e5fdd17760af3d29e3cc14d4c3fb3f49816490ef4767fcfd3271854/ed498d049e5fdd17760af3d29e3cc14d4c3fb3f49816490ef4767fcfd3271854-json.log Offset:245013006 Finished:false Fileinfo:0xc42026f380 FileStateOS:{Inode:3821251 Device:51713} Timestamp:2018-01-08 19:35:42.264144712 +0000 UTC m=+305.083664000 TTL:-1ns}

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**Author:** ![Samuel\_Miller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Samuel\_Miller](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Samuel_Miller)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 10:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-5-6-error/114602/2 "2018-01-18T22:54:46Z")

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I've worked around this error by not running Filebeat from within a container. This is pretty disappointing, but I wasn't able to wait around for another fix to an apparently already resolved issue.

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 9:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-5-6-error/114602/3 "2018-01-21T21:43:50Z")

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@Samuel_Miller I just checked our 5.6 branch and it should be indeed fixed there. We even have a test in 5.6 that checks that the bug is resolved.

In case of reloading, the above error can still show up if you have 2 prospectors with overlapping configs which is not a bug. Could you share your config?

I wonder why running it inside the container solves your issue?

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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:** [February 18, 2018, 9:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-5-6-error/114602/4 "2018-02-18T21:43:51Z")

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