Issue during version upgrade from 7.17.8 to 8.12.2

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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Hi,

I am trying to upgrade Kibana node from 7.17.8 to 8.12.2. So first we have installed Elasticsearch 8.12.2 on Kibana node and on elasticsearch service start I am getting below error

java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "org.elasticsearch.license.License.operationMode()" because "license" is null

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From Kibana to Elasticsearch

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@DavidTurner @Christian_Dahlqvist please help here. Thanks

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No idea, sorry. Please don't ping random folks to draw them into a conversation. We're all volunteers here and it's really rather rude to demand attention like that.

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Apologies. Noted. Thanks

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If someone is going to be able to help I would recommend you provide more details about exactly the steps you have taken and what the environment look like. Also provide more of the logs so there is some context.

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I have the same issue after upgrading my environment from 7.17 to 8.11.
Sorry about bringing up an old topic. Googling my error only returned this page as a result.

My assumption from reading the documentation is that a new config value was added for licensing as I now see there is talk about free and subscription features. However, I was unable to find any reference to config values or how to update the config file with any of the upgrade documentation located.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Hello and welcome,

Are you doing this same update path from 7.17.8 to 8.12.2? I would suggest that you open a new topic with your specific issue and share the logs you have with the error.

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it got resolved by restarting the elasticsearch and kibana service again