# Having issues installing ElasticSearch **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 3, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-installing-elasticsearch/184061 "2019-06-03T21:37:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@Amazing](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amazing)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-installing-elasticsearch/184061/1 "2019-06-03T21:37:56Z")
I had 6x installed and something went wrong and it stopped working after it had been fine for months so I decided to go ahead and remove the 6x version and do a fresh install of 7.1.1. But so far I have not been able to get elasticsearch to stay running. When I run systemctl status elasticsearch I get the following output Jun 03 17:32:33 [server.servername.com](http://server.servername.com) elasticsearch[23772]: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: Option UseConcMarkSweepGC was deprecated in ver...elease. Jun 03 17:32:38 [server.servername.com](http://server.servername.com) systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Jun 03 17:32:38 [server.servername.com](http://server.servername.com) systemd[1]: Unit elasticsearch.service entered failed state. Jun 03 17:32:38 [server.servername.com](http://server.servername.com) systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service failed. I have not touched the configuration file yet so what am I doing wrong? Any help would be grateful! ![1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/1/e159a276b581b72c39850012327aea659ed9e6e1.png) ![2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/f/bf2bae22985cbab8a5c7a17eca5665c1550704b2.png) ![3](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/0/5077690e9741c173918e4f07bdcc9c4fcac342e3.png) ---
**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:** [June 4, 2019, 12:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-installing-elasticsearch/184061/2 "2019-06-04T00:34:32Z")
Please don't post pictures of text, they are difficult to read and some people may not be even able to see them. Also please check your Elasticsearch logs. ---
**Author:** ![Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@Amazing](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amazing)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 1:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-installing-elasticsearch/184061/3 "2019-06-04T01:23:39Z")
I see this in my logs ``` [2019-06-03T17:32:38,372][ERROR][o.e.b.Bootstrap] [server.servername.com] Exception java.lang.IllegalStateException: failed to obtain node locks, tried [[/var/lib/elasticsearch]] with lock id [0]; maybe these locations are not writable or $ at org.elasticsearch.env.NodeEnvironment.(NodeEnvironment.java:297) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:272) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:252) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap$5.(Bootstrap.java:211) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:211) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:325) [elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:159) [elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:150) [elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86) [elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124) [elasticsearch-cli-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90) [elasticsearch-cli-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:115) [elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:92) [elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] Caused by: java.io.IOException: failed to obtain lock on /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0 at org.elasticsearch.env.NodeEnvironment$NodeLock.(NodeEnvironment.java:219) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.env.NodeEnvironment.(NodeEnvironment.java:267) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] ... 12 more Caused by: java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0/node.lock at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:90) ~[?:?] at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:111) ~[?:?] at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:116) ~[?:?] at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newFileChannel(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:182) ~[?:?] at java.nio.channels.FileChannel.open(FileChannel.java:292) ~[?:?] at java.nio.channels.FileChannel.open(FileChannel.java:345) ~[?:?] at org.apache.lucene.store.NativeFSLockFactory.obtainFSLock(NativeFSLockFactory.java:125) ~[lucene-core-8.0.0.jar:8.0.0 2ae4746365c1ee72a0047ced761$ at org.apache.lucene.store.FSLockFactory.obtainLock(FSLockFactory.java:41) ~[lucene-core-8.0.0.jar:8.0.0 2ae4746365c1ee72a0047ced7610b2096e438979 -$ at org.apache.lucene.store.BaseDirectory.obtainLock(BaseDirectory.java:45) ~[lucene-core-8.0.0.jar:8.0.0 2ae4746365c1ee72a0047ced7610b2096e438979 -$ at org.elasticsearch.env.NodeEnvironment$NodeLock.(NodeEnvironment.java:212) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.env.NodeEnvironment.(NodeEnvironment.java:267) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] ... 12 more [2019-06-03T17:32:38,390][WARN][o.e.b.ElasticsearchUncaughtExceptionHandler] [server.servername.com] uncaught exception in thread [main] org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.StartupException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: failed to obtain node locks, tried [[/var/lib/elasticsearch]] with lock id [$ at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:163) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:150) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124) ~[elasticsearch-cli-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90) ~[elasticsearch-cli-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:115) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:92) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: failed to obtain node locks, tried [[/var/lib/elasticsearch]] with lock id [0]; maybe these locations are not w$ at org.elasticsearch.env.NodeEnvironment.(NodeEnvironment.java:297) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:272) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:252) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap$5.(Bootstrap.java:211) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:211) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:325) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:159) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] ... 6 more Caused by: java.io.IOException: failed to obtain lock on /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0 at org.elasticsearch.env.NodeEnvironment$NodeLock.(NodeEnvironment.java:219) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.env.NodeEnvironment.(NodeEnvironment.java:267) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:272) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:252) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap$5.(Bootstrap.java:211) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:211) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:325) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:159) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] ... 6 more ``` ---
**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:** [June 4, 2019, 1:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-installing-elasticsearch/184061/4 "2019-06-04T01:23:56Z")
Please format your code/logs/config using the `` button, or markdown style back ticks. It helps to make things easy to read which helps us help you 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@Amazing](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amazing)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 1:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-installing-elasticsearch/184061/5 "2019-06-04T01:32:36Z")
I edited it so it's easier to read. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2019, 1:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-installing-elasticsearch/184061/6 "2019-06-04T01:37:58Z")
> [@Amazing](#): > > Caused by: java.io.IOException: failed to obtain lock on /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0 How did you install Elasticsearch? Is there a link to a guide/docs you used? ---
**Author:** ![Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@Amazing](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amazing)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 1:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-installing-elasticsearch/184061/7 "2019-06-04T01:38:35Z")
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/rpm.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/rpm.html) I installed using the repo ---
**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:** [June 4, 2019, 1:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-installing-elasticsearch/184061/8 "2019-06-04T01:39:46Z")
What does `ls -l /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0 /var/lib/elasticsearch` show? ---
**Author:** ![Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@Amazing](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amazing)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 1:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-installing-elasticsearch/184061/9 "2019-06-04T01:41:25Z")
``` [root@private ~]# ls -l /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0 /var/lib/elasticsearch ``` /var/lib/elasticsearch: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 987 985 4096 Oct 18 2018 nodes /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0: total 8 drwxr-xr-x 7 987 985 4096 May 31 19:39 indices -rw-r--r-- 1 987 985 0 Oct 18 2018 node.lock drwxr-xr-x 2 987 985 4096 May 31 19:39 \_state ---
**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:** [June 4, 2019, 1:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-installing-elasticsearch/184061/10 "2019-06-04T01:43:18Z")
Ahh ok, so when you removed 6.X did you do a purge or just a remove? Cause it looks like there is still data there from the old install, and the user ID that it was using for the `elasticsearch` user is different to the one that 7.X is using. If you don't want the data then you might want to `rm` the directory. If you do want it then do a `chmod`. ---
**Author:** ![Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@Amazing](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amazing)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 1:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-installing-elasticsearch/184061/11 "2019-06-04T01:45:27Z")
When I removed it I used the yum remove elasticsearch command. If I did not do that correctly can you please tell me how to properly remove it? ---
**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:** [June 4, 2019, 1:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-installing-elasticsearch/184061/12 "2019-06-04T01:51:14Z")
I think yum or rpm has an erase command? It's been a while since I used a RHEL based OS sorry, and my websearches aren't returning much useful. ---
**Author:** ![Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@Amazing](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amazing)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 1:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-installing-elasticsearch/184061/13 "2019-06-04T01:52:54Z")
I just ran rm -rf /etc/elasticsearch after doing yum remove elasticsearch and now the directory and files are gone so I should be safe to try to reinstall now correct? ---
**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:** [June 4, 2019, 1:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-installing-elasticsearch/184061/14 "2019-06-04T01:53:21Z")
If you've already removed the package, yep! ---
**Author:** ![Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@Amazing](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amazing)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 1:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-installing-elasticsearch/184061/15 "2019-06-04T01:56:50Z")
That did not help and the same errors show. ``` java.lang.IllegalStateException: failed to obtain node locks, tried [[/var/lib/elasticsearch]] with lock id [0]; maybe these locations are not writable or $ at org.elasticsearch.env.NodeEnvironment.(NodeEnvironment.java:297) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:272) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:252) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap$5.(Bootstrap.java:211) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:211) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:325) [elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:159) [elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:150) [elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86) [elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124) [elasticsearch-cli-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90) [elasticsearch-cli-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:115) [elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:92) [elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1] ``` I have even removed the old java installs that I had before cause I had read somewhere that java is now bundled with ES. Also I tried to remove ES again and ran the same command to delete the folder but then I thought to run `ls -l /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0 /var/lib/elasticsearch` and got this again ``` `[root@private ~]# rm -rf /etc/elasticsearch [root@private ~]# ls -l /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0 /var/lib/elasticsearch /var/lib/elasticsearch: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 987 985 4096 Oct 18 2018 nodes /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0: total 8 drwxr-xr-x 7 987 985 4096 May 31 19:39 indices -rw-r--r-- 1 987 985 0 Oct 18 2018 node.lock drwxr-xr-x 2 987 985 4096 May 31 19:39 _state` ``` ---
**Author:** ![Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@Amazing](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amazing)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 2:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-installing-elasticsearch/184061/16 "2019-06-04T02:59:10Z")
I figured it out ! Still was left over files even after doing that so I ran ``` rm -rf /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes rm -rf /var/lib/elasticsearch/ ``` And Finally ran ``` ls -l /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0 /var/lib/elasticsearch ``` And finally got ``` ls: cannot access /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0: No such file or directory ``` So then I reinstalled 7.1.1 and it now stays running. I have one more question though what else do I need to install for this to work the best and to be secure? I am using this for a Xenforo forum and I wanted to ensure all is safe and secure. Also thanks so much for your help. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2019, 3:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-installing-elasticsearch/184061/17 "2019-06-04T03:01:17Z")
I don't know Xenforo (and would highly recommend using [Discourse](https://www.discourse.org/) - which is what this platform is), but if you are using 7.1 then make sure you are using the default distribution and setup TLS and security 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@Amazing](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amazing)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 3:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-installing-elasticsearch/184061/18 "2019-06-04T03:06:50Z")
Do you have any links for how to setup what you had suggested ? I want to ensure I am doing everything right. Also do I need to add to the config file anything to enable x-pack? ---
**Author:** ![nuwan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nuwan/32/42325_2.png) [@nuwan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nuwan)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 5:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-installing-elasticsearch/184061/19 "2019-06-04T05:16:18Z")
> **[Install Elasticsearch 7.x on Ubuntu 18.04/Debian 9.8 - kifarunix.com](https://kifarunix.com/install-elasticsearch-7-x-on-ubuntu-18-04-debian-9-8/)** > > This guide describes how to install Elasticsearch 7.x on Ubuntu 18.04/Debian 9.8. Elasticsearch 7.0.0 is the latest stable release version. ---
**Author:** ![nuwan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nuwan/32/42325_2.png) [@nuwan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nuwan)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 5:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-issues-installing-elasticsearch/184061/20 "2019-06-04T05:16:54Z")
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