# Gateway.type issue
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gateway-type-issue/43173
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 1, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gateway-type-issue/43173 "2016-03-01T23:06:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@stecino](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stecino)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gateway-type-issue/43173/1 "2016-03-01T23:06:19Z")
Hello,
I am running into this issue when I am restarting my elasticsearch instance on my master node
Stopping elasticsearch: [FAILED]
Starting elasticsearch: [OK]
- elasticsearch-2.1.2]$ Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown [gateway] type [fs]
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.ExtensionPoint$SelectedType.bindType(ExtensionPoint.java:146)
at org.elasticsearch.gateway.GatewayModule.configure(GatewayModule.java:53)
at \<\<\>\>
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:200)
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:128)
at org.elasticsearch.node.NodeBuilder.build(NodeBuilder.java:145)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:178)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:285)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:35)
Refer to the log for complete error details.
This is what's in the log, seems that it still binds to localhost, although I tell it to bind to eth0
[2016-03-01 18:41:48,769][WARN][bootstrap] unable to install syscall filter: prctl(PR\_GET\_NO\_NEW\_PRIVS): Invalid argument
[2016-03-01 18:41:49,753][INFO][node] [Stitch] version[2.1.2], pid[26737], build[63c285e/2016-01-27T12:57:52Z]
[2016-03-01 18:41:49,753][INFO][node] [Stitch] initializing ...
[2016-03-01 18:41:50,225][INFO][plugins] [Stitch] loaded [], sites []
[2016-03-01 18:41:56,131][INFO][node] [Stitch] initialized
[2016-03-01 18:41:56,135][INFO][node] [Stitch] starting ...
[2016-03-01 18:41:56,382][INFO][transport] [Stitch] publish\_address {127.0.0.1:9300}, bound\_addresses {127.0.0.1:9300}, {[::1]:9300}
[2016-03-01 18:41:56,411][INFO][discovery] [Stitch] herd-dev-wc1/sPweHychTyCwyGDMsV4qnA
[2016-03-01 18:41:58,597][INFO][node] [Stitch] stopping ...
[2016-03-01 18:41:58,624][INFO][node] [Stitch] stopped
[2016-03-01 18:41:58,624][INFO][node] [Stitch] closing ...
[2016-03-01 18:41:58,649][INFO][node] [Stitch] closed
Here is what I have in my config:
network.host: "_eth0_"
gateway.type: local
:
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 11:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gateway-type-issue/43173/2 "2016-03-01T23:50:55Z")
I don't think that is a valid setting in 2.X - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.1/modules-gateway.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.1/modules-gateway.html)
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### Author:  [@stecino](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stecino)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2016, 12:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gateway-type-issue/43173/3 "2016-03-02T00:13:21Z")
I removed gateway.type parameter from the yaml file, I am still being prompted for it. Is there anywhere else I need to look for this? Local Gateway is used by a default.
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### Author:  [@stecino](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stecino)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2016, 12:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gateway-type-issue/43173/4 "2016-03-02T00:37:17Z")
Here is what I have on my startup
/home/t/elasticsearch-2.1.2/bin/elasticsearch -p /home/t/elasticsearch-2.1.2/var/run/elasticsearch.pid -d -Des.default.path.home=/home/t/elasticsearch-2.1.2 -Des.default.path.logs=/home/t/elasticsearch-2.1.2/log -Des.default.path.data=/home/t/elasticsearch-2.1.2/data -Des.default.path.work=/home/t/elasticsearch-2.1.2/tmp -Des.default.path.conf=/home/t/elasticsearch-2.1.2/config'
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### Author:  [@stecino](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stecino)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gateway-type-issue/43173/5 "2016-03-02T00:58:33Z")
I solved the issue. I have init script that sets the environment variables for path.
But in the yaml file is overriding with something that was incorrect. Once I fixed it, it came up
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gateway-type-issue/43173/6 "2017-07-05T23:12:15Z")