Incomplete jdk.app in the installation package｜Unable to start Elasticsearch｜macOS x86_64 | elasticsearch-8.13.2

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  1. Downloaded the installation package, elasticsearch-8.13.2, several times, but the system indicates that jdk.app is incomplete.

  2. Privacy and security settings are configured to allow open.

  3. Unable to start Elasticsearch.

Thanks!

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Hi @Joanna_Chang - Welcome to our Discuss forum! :slightly_smiling_face:

I had the same problem. Despite allowing jdk.app in the Privacy&Security settings, I was still getting the same error.

I managed to "fix" this by running attr -d com.apple.quarantine jdk.app in the unzipped Elasticsearch folder where the jdk.app is. I am not sure how this got marked as quarantined in the first place, but that did the trick for me. Hopefully this works for you as well.

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It is actually something related to macOS Gatekeeper and Apple’s rollout of stricter notarization requirements. It is documented in our Kibana documentation (c.f
Install Kibana from archive on Linux or macOS | Kibana Guide [8.13] | Elastic ) but not in the Elasticsearch documentation. I will open an Elasticsearch issue to get that documented.