# I am installing the new ES and i keep receiving these errors on start. main ERROR Null object returned for RollingFile in Appenders **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 21, 2018, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-am-installing-the-new-es-and-i-keep-receiving-these-errors-on-start-main-error-null-object-returned-for-rollingfile-in-appenders/125002 "2018-03-21T14:23:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KKB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d78d45/32.png) [@KKB](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KKB)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-am-installing-the-new-es-and-i-keep-receiving-these-errors-on-start-main-error-null-object-returned-for-rollingfile-in-appenders/125002/1 "2018-03-21T14:23:24Z")
Hi, I am installing the new ES and i keep receiving these errors on start. main ERROR Null object returned for RollingFile in Appenders. I trouble shoot by all the recommendation which had posted in forums relates to this error still i am not able to resolve this issue. **strong text** root@ubuntu:/etc/init.d# systemctl status elasticsearch ● elasticsearch.service - Elasticsearch Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2018-03-21 12:24:07 PDT; 5min ago Docs: [http://www.elastic.co](http://www.elastic.co) Process: 4836 ExecStart=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -p ${PID\_DIR}/elasticsearch.pid --quiet (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 4836 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Mar 21 12:24:07 ubuntu elasticsearch[4836]: 2018-03-21 12:24:06,712 main ERROR Null object returned for RollingFile in Appenders. Mar 21 12:24:07 ubuntu elasticsearch[4836]: 2018-03-21 12:24:06,712 main ERROR Null object returned for RollingFile in Appenders. Mar 21 12:24:07 ubuntu elasticsearch[4836]: 2018-03-21 12:24:06,713 main ERROR Null object returned for RollingFile in Appenders. Mar 21 12:24:07 ubuntu elasticsearch[4836]: 2018-03-21 12:24:06,713 main ERROR Unable to locate appender "rolling" for logger config "root" Mar 21 12:24:07 ubuntu elasticsearch[4836]: 2018-03-21 12:24:06,713 main ERROR Unable to locate appender "index\_indexing\_slowlog\_rolling" for l Mar 21 12:24:07 ubuntu elasticsearch[4836]: 2018-03-21 12:24:06,714 main ERROR Unable to locate appender "index\_search\_slowlog\_rolling" for log Mar 21 12:24:07 ubuntu elasticsearch[4836]: 2018-03-21 12:24:06,715 main ERROR Unable to locate appender "deprecation\_rolling" for logger confi Mar 21 12:24:07 ubuntu systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Mar 21 12:24:07 ubuntu systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Unit entered failed state. Mar 21 12:24:07 ubuntu systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. ---
**Author:** ![xavierfacq](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/xavierfacq/32/8744_2.png) [@xavierfacq](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xavierfacq)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 8:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-am-installing-the-new-es-and-i-keep-receiving-these-errors-on-start-main-error-null-object-returned-for-rollingfile-in-appenders/125002/2 "2018-03-22T08:54:05Z")
Hi, Can you give: OS and ES version ? Can you past the result of: ``` more /var/log/elasticsearch/.log ``` There is probably more informations in the full log. Xavier ---
**Author:** ![KKB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d78d45/32.png) [@KKB](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KKB)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 10:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-am-installing-the-new-es-and-i-keep-receiving-these-errors-on-start-main-error-null-object-returned-for-rollingfile-in-appenders/125002/3 "2018-03-23T10:33:50Z")
Hi, OS and ES version ? OS: Ubuntu 16.04 ES Version :6.0.1 I didn't find any logs for elasticsearch in this location --/var/log/elasticsearch/.log Regards, KB. ---
**Author:** ![xavierfacq](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/xavierfacq/32/8744_2.png) [@xavierfacq](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xavierfacq)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-am-installing-the-new-es-and-i-keep-receiving-these-errors-on-start-main-error-null-object-returned-for-rollingfile-in-appenders/125002/4 "2018-03-26T13:44:54Z")
> [@KKB](#): > > /var/log/elasticsearch/.log There no log in the directory : /var/log/elasticsearch/ ``` ls /var/log/elasticsearch/ ``` ---
**Author:** ![KKB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d78d45/32.png) [@KKB](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KKB)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 7:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-am-installing-the-new-es-and-i-keep-receiving-these-errors-on-start-main-error-null-object-returned-for-rollingfile-in-appenders/125002/5 "2018-03-28T07:35:12Z")
Hi, I don't see any logs which are generated /var/log/elasticsearch. please see the details in screen short. ![Elasticsearch](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/9/79b8e5b08fde790eb7df5571fcd9234901789d37.PNG) Could you please let me know the process how to install elastic search in Suse linux / redhat linux i tried but I couldn't get the procedure. Regards, Bhavani. ---
**Author:** ![KKB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d78d45/32.png) [@KKB](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KKB)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-am-installing-the-new-es-and-i-keep-receiving-these-errors-on-start-main-error-null-object-returned-for-rollingfile-in-appenders/125002/6 "2018-03-28T14:41:08Z")
Hello xavierfacq, I tried installation on Linux machine where i got the below java error . Bhavani/elasticsearch-5.0.2 #./bin/elasticsearch Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/elasticsearch/bootstrap/Elasticsearch : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0 at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:800) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:449) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:71) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358) at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:482 java version is: java version "1.8.0\_131" Can you please help me to resolve this case. Regards, Bhavani. ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 2:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-am-installing-the-new-es-and-i-keep-receiving-these-errors-on-start-main-error-null-object-returned-for-rollingfile-in-appenders/125002/7 "2018-03-28T14:59:39Z")
Your `JAVA_HOME` is probably incorrectly set. Check it. ---
**Author:** ![xavierfacq](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/xavierfacq/32/8744_2.png) [@xavierfacq](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xavierfacq)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2018, 2:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-am-installing-the-new-es-and-i-keep-receiving-these-errors-on-start-main-error-null-object-returned-for-rollingfile-in-appenders/125002/8 "2018-04-04T14:04:14Z")
hi, It is pretty strange that there is no log into the directory when you start the service... Without the full trace, it will be easier to find a solution. Xavier ---
**Author:** ![xavierfacq](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/xavierfacq/32/8744_2.png) [@xavierfacq](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xavierfacq)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2018, 2:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-am-installing-the-new-es-and-i-keep-receiving-these-errors-on-start-main-error-null-object-returned-for-rollingfile-in-appenders/125002/9 "2018-04-04T14:07:14Z")
> [@KKB](#): > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/elasticsearch/bootstrap/Elasticsearch : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0 are you certain that this version is used to start elasticsearch ? Try : ``` java -version ``` Xavier ---
**Author:** ![KKB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d78d45/32.png) [@KKB](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KKB)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2018, 2:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-am-installing-the-new-es-and-i-keep-receiving-these-errors-on-start-main-error-null-object-returned-for-rollingfile-in-appenders/125002/10 "2018-04-04T14:07:26Z")
I set the path correctly, I installed the ELK on windows. thank you. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2018, 2:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-am-installing-the-new-es-and-i-keep-receiving-these-errors-on-start-main-error-null-object-returned-for-rollingfile-in-appenders/125002/11 "2018-05-02T14:07:38Z")
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