So, I have a self-hosted ELK Stack (v. 8.11) in which I've been working for a few weeks. I've configured the certificates using the elasticsearch-certutil util and Elastic + Kibana are working fine. After that I wanted to configure a Fleet server. I followed this steps given to me by my ELK instan…

i found this: [image] Elastic agent uninstall Elastic Agent I did this and now it is enrolled, topic can be closed rm /etc/systemd/system/elastic-agent.service root@elk:/opt/Elastic# rm -r Agent curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/elastic-agent/elast…

Hi @ghuie The proper uninstall command per the docs is only sudo /opt/Elastic/Agent/elastic-agent uninstall First try that... Not running ./elastic-agent uninstall from the original install directory that will not work. When I see others get in this state then you need to manually clean up (cl…

Hi Stephen! Thanks for the quick reply. I've tried that also just after I posted the problem, but to no effect. It keeps insisting that I do this: elastic-agent uninstall from /usr/bin/ What I did was delete the process at systemd/system and the agent from /opt/. To be honest, it's not the way I …

I agree, it's not a great way.... but it is key to run the correct uninstall command because the Agent Gets installed in /opt/Elastic/Agent, so the uninstall needs to run from there... hopefully that makes sense... if you try to run it from the directory that you untarred into that will not work fo…

Oh sorry; what I meant to say is that I did try to run the uninstall command from both, /usr/bin/ and /opt/Elastic/Agent, but it didn't matter the locations from which I was trying to run the command, the error was the same: Error: can only be uninstalled by executing the installed Elastic Agent at:…

[image] ghuie: Error: can only be uninstalled by executing the installed Elastic Agent at: /usr/bin/elastic-agent. Right! but that happens typically when the wrong command is run the first... once you do that the agent is left in an inconsistent state then trying to run /opt/Elastic/Agent/el…

Oh ok, I get it now. I'll install the agent just to uninstall it to see of it's all OK then. I'll keep you posted, thanks so much!

@ghuie You are not the first ... nor the last to run into this... :slight_smile:

BTW PR to get docs fixed Improve agent uninstall docs to ensure correct directory elastic:main ← kilfoyle:795/uninstall-fails opened 06:31PM - 05 Jan 24 UTC (UTC) …

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stephenb (Stephen Brown) January 5, 2024, 4:11pm 9

@ghuie You are not the first ... nor the last to run into this...

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