Installation of elasticsearch on Debian 10 hangs

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Hi,

The installation of elasticsearch on a debian 10 using the repo hangs forever. The culprits seems to be the Java version checker:

root      3977  3.4  1.9 261376 160304 pts/0   Sl+  10:41   0:01          \_ aptitude install elasticsearch
root      4079  0.0  0.1  21836  9892 pts/1    Ss+  10:41   0:00              \_ /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 46 --configure --pending
root      4080  0.0  0.0   6956   840 pts/1    S+   10:41   0:00                  \_ sh -c (test -x /usr/lib/needrestart/dpkg-status && /usr/lib/needrestart/dpkg-status || cat > /dev/null)
root      4081  0.0  0.0   6956   188 pts/1    S+   10:41   0:00                  |   \_ sh -c (test -x /usr/lib/needrestart/dpkg-status && /usr/lib/needrestart/dpkg-status || cat > /dev/null)
root      4082  0.0  0.0   6956  1980 pts/1    S+   10:41   0:00                  |       \_ /bin/sh /usr/lib/needrestart/dpkg-status
root      4085  0.0  0.0  11328  3660 pts/1    S+   10:41   0:00                  \_ /bin/bash -e /var/lib/dpkg/info/elasticsearch.postinst configure
root      4089  0.0  0.0  11196  3408 pts/1    S+   10:41   0:00                      \_ /bin/bash /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-keystore upgrade
root      4091  0.0  0.0  11196  3600 pts/1    S+   10:41   0:00                          \_ /bin/bash /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-cli upgrade
root      4098  0.2  0.4 428732 35920 pts/1    Sl+  10:41   0:00                              \_ /usr/share/elasticsearch/jdk/bin/java -cp /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/* org.elasticsearch.tools.java_version_checker.JavaVersionChecker

If I execute the line by hand, it also hangs forever.

UPDATE: Using the java from Debian, I receive the error:

Error: Could not find or load main class .usr.share.elasticsearch.lib.elasticsearch-cli-7.4.0.jar
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/elasticsearch-cli-7/4/0/jar

The installation of 7.3.2 succeeds.

Best,
Robert

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what java version do you have installed? Can you run java -version? Also, just to make sure. Which line did you execute by hand, that also hangs?

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Local java:
$ java -version

openjdk version "11.0.4" 2019-07-16
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.4+11-post-Debian-1deb10u1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0.4+11-post-Debian-1deb10u1, mixed mode, sharing)

ES 7.4.0 java
$ /usr/share/elasticsearch/jdk/bin/java -version

openjdk version "13" 2019-09-17
OpenJDK Runtime Environment AdoptOpenJDK (build 13+33)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM AdoptOpenJDK (build 13+33, mixed mode, sharing)

ES 7.3.2 java

$ /usr/share/elasticsearch/jdk/bin/java -version

openjdk version "12.0.2" 2019-07-16
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 12.0.2+10)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 12.0.2+10, mixed mode, sharing)

I executed by hand:

/usr/share/elasticsearch/jdk/bin/java -cp /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/* org.elasticsearch.tools.java_version_checker.JavaVersionChecker

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I tested the installation, which succeeded, and the invocation of the JavaVersionChecker on a CentOS 7:

$ LANG=C /usr/share/elasticsearch/jdk/bin/java -cp /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/* org.elasticsearch.tools.java_version_checker.JavaVersionChecker
Error: Could not find or load main class .usr.share.elasticsearch.lib.elasticsearch-cli-7.4.0.jar
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/elasticsearch-cli-7/4/0/jar
$ ls /usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/*
/usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/elasticsearch-7.4.0.jar

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Could you please describe more what you are doing to setup the yum/apt repo which you install from? Something is very wrong with the exception you get in both cases; we don't specify a jar as the class. Could you also try running /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-env directly, and if that fails upload the contents here?

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In version 7.3.2 /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-env returns without any output, in version 7.4.0 it hangs.

7

It still happens in version 7.4.2.

8

Is there some investigation going on?

9

It still happens with 7.5.0.