# I cannot start logstash on my machine. Error message inside

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cannot-start-logstash-on-my-machine-error-message-inside/88900>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [June 10, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cannot-start-logstash-on-my-machine-error-message-inside/88900 "2017-06-10T00:07:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 1:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cannot-start-logstash-on-my-machine-error-message-inside/88900/2 "2017-06-10T01:49:33Z")

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> [@dona](#):
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> Path "/usr/share/logstash/data" must be a writable directory. It is not writable.

The directory /usr/share/logstash must be owned by logstash and the permission of data directory should be 777

$ chown -R logstash.logstash /usr/share/logstash  
$ chmod 777 /usr/share/logstash/data

Also check the user who owns logstash in /etc/default/logstash by default it is logstash.

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LS\_USER="logstash"  
LS\_GROUP="logstash"  
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