# Hello, Help for Error : An unexpected error occurred! {:error=\>#\<LogStash::Error: Don't know how to handle

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hello-help-for-error-an-unexpected-error-occurred-error-logstash-dont-know-how-to-handle/259787
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [December 29, 2020, 9:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hello-help-for-error-an-unexpected-error-occurred-error-logstash-dont-know-how-to-handle/259787 "2020-12-29T09:15:45Z")
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### Author: ![Muhammad\_Firdaus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/muhammad_firdaus/32/81496_2.png) [@Muhammad\_Firdaus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Muhammad_Firdaus)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2020, 9:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hello-help-for-error-an-unexpected-error-occurred-error-logstash-dont-know-how-to-handle/259787/1 "2020-12-29T09:15:45Z")

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Get Error when starting up Logstash

[2020-12-29T16:08:40,925][ERROR][logstash.agent] An exception happened when converging configuration {:exception=\>LogStash::Error, :message=\>"Don't know how to handle `Java::JavaLang::IllegalStateException` for `PipelineAction::Create<main>`"}  
[2020-12-29T16:08:40,951][FATAL][logstash.runner] An unexpected error occurred! {:error=\>#\<LogStash::Error: Don't know how to handle `Java::JavaLang::IllegalStateException` for `PipelineAction::Create<main>`\>, :backtrace=\>["org/logstash/execution/ConvergeResultExt.java:129:in `create'", "org/logstash/execution/ConvergeResultExt.java:57:in `add'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:378:in `block in converge_state'"]} [2020-12-29T16:08:40,961][ERROR][org.logstash.Logstash] java.lang.IllegalStateException: Logstash stopped processing because of an error: (SystemExit) exit [2020-12-29T16:08:50,711][INFO][logstash.runner] Starting Logstash {"logstash.version"=>"7.10.1", "jruby.version"=>"jruby 9.2.13.0 (2.5.7) 2020-08-03 9a89c94bcc OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 11.0.8+10 on 11.0.8+10 +indy +jit [linux-x86_64]"} [2020-12-29T16:08:52,242][INFO][org.reflections.Reflections] Reflections took 25 ms to scan 1 urls, producing 23 keys and 47 values [2020-12-29T16:08:52,448][ERROR][logstash.plugins.registry] Tried to load a plugin's code, but failed. {:exception=>#<LoadError: no such file to load -- logstash/outputs/jdbc>, :path=>"logstash/outputs/jdbc", :type=>"output", :name=>"jdbc"} [2020-12-29T16:08:52,455][ERROR][logstash.agent] Failed to execute action {:action=>LogStash::PipelineAction::Create/pipeline_id:main, :exception=>"Java::JavaLang::IllegalStateException", :message=>"Unable to configure plugins: (PluginLoadingError) Couldn't find any output plugin named 'jdbc'. Are you sure this is correct? Trying to load the jdbc output plugin resulted in this error: no such file to load -- logstash/outputs/jdbc", :backtrace=>["org.logstash.config.ir.CompiledPipeline.<init>(CompiledPipeline.java:119)", "org.logstash.execution.JavaBasePipelineExt.initialize(JavaBasePipelineExt.java:83)", "org.logstash.execution.JavaBasePipelineExt$INVOKER$i$1$0$initialize.call(JavaBasePipelineExt$INVOKER$i$1$0$initialize.gen)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.JavaMethod$JavaMethodN.call(JavaMethod.java:837)", "org.jruby.ir.runtime.IRRuntimeHelpers.instanceSuper(IRRuntimeHelpers.java:1169)", "org.jruby.ir.runtime.IRRuntimeHelpers.instanceSuperSplatArgs(IRRuntimeHelpers.java:1156)", "org.jruby.ir.targets.InstanceSuperInvokeSite.invoke(InstanceSuperInvokeSite.java:39)", "usr.share.logstash.logstash_minus_core.lib.logstash.java_pipeline.RUBY$method$initialize$0(/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/java_pipeline.rb:47)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.CompiledIRMethod.call(CompiledIRMethod.java:80)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.MixedModeIRMethod.call(MixedModeIRMethod.java:70)", "org.jruby.runtime.callsite.CachingCallSite.cacheAndCall(CachingCallSite.java:332)", "org.jruby.runtime.callsite.CachingCallSite.call(CachingCallSite.java:86)", "org.jruby.RubyClass.newInstance(RubyClass.java:939)", "org.jruby.RubyClass$INVOKER$i$newInstance.call(RubyClass$INVOKER$i$newInstance.gen)", "org.jruby.ir.targets.InvokeSite.invoke(InvokeSite.java:207)", "usr.share.logstash.logstash_minus_core.lib.logstash.pipeline_action.create.RUBY$method$execute$0(/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline_action/create.rb:52)", "usr.share.logstash.logstash_minus_core.lib.logstash.pipeline_action.create.RUBY$method$execute$0$ __VARARGS__ (/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline_action/create.rb)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.CompiledIRMethod.call(CompiledIRMethod.java:80)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.MixedModeIRMethod.call(MixedModeIRMethod.java:70)", "org.jruby.ir.targets.InvokeSite.invoke(InvokeSite.java:207)", "usr.share.logstash.logstash_minus_core.lib.logstash.agent.RUBY$block$converge_state$2(/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:365)", "org.jruby.runtime.CompiledIRBlockBody.callDirect(CompiledIRBlockBody.java:138)", "org.jruby.runtime.IRBlockBody.call(IRBlockBody.java:58)", "org.jruby.runtime.IRBlockBody.call(IRBlockBody.java:52)", "org.jruby.runtime.Block.call(Block.java:139)", "org.jruby.RubyProc.call(RubyProc.java:318)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.RubyRunnable.run(RubyRunnable.java:105)", "java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834)"]} [2020-12-29T16:08:52,461][ERROR][logstash.agent] An exception happened when converging configuration {:exception=>LogStash::Error, :message=>"Don't know how to handle `Java::JavaLang::IllegalStateException`for`PipelineAction::Create`"} [2020-12-29T16:08:52,486][FATAL][logstash.runner] An unexpected error occurred! {:error=>#<LogStash::Error: Don't know how to handle `Java::JavaLang::IllegalStateException`for`PipelineAction::Create`>, :backtrace=>["org/logstash/execution/ConvergeResultExt.java:129:in `create'", "org/logstash/execution/ConvergeResultExt.java:57:in `add'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:378:in `block in converge\_state'"]}  
[2020-12-29T16:08:52,502][ERROR][org.logstash.Logstash] java.lang.IllegalStateException: Logstash stopped processing because of an error: (SystemExit) exit

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### Author: ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2020, 3:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hello-help-for-error-an-unexpected-error-occurred-error-logstash-dont-know-how-to-handle/259787/2 "2020-12-29T15:11:51Z")

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> [@Muhammad\_Firdaus](#):
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> Tried to load a plugin's code, but failed. {:exception=\>#\<LoadError: no such file to load -- logstash/outputs/jdbc\>, :path=\>"logstash/outputs/jdbc", :type=\>"output", :name=\>"jdbc"}

The jdbc output is a third-party project and not bundled with logstash. You will need to install it. The installation instructions are [here](https://github.com/theangryangel/logstash-output-jdbc#installation).

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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: [January 26, 2021, 3:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hello-help-for-error-an-unexpected-error-occurred-error-logstash-dont-know-how-to-handle/259787/3 "2021-01-26T15:12:12Z")

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