Issue with running Kibana v6.2.3 on Windows 7

[LaonWeis]

I downloaded the zip file from: https://www.elastic.co/downloads/kibana

When running .\bin\kibana.bat I received the following error:

node.exe: src\node_file.cc:578: Assertion '<numchar> >= <0>' failed

I also placed the node.exe that is within the kibana directory into my PATH already

I hope that someone can point me in the right direction!

[bhavyarm]

@LeeDr can I get your help on this?

Thanks,
Bhavya

[LeeDr (Lee Drengenberg)]

Hi LaonWeis,

It's working for me on Windows 10 (64-bit) and should work the same on Windows 7.

1. Is your Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit? It should work on either but I could try to check the exact same.
2. Is this the file you downloaded? https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana/kibana-6.2.3-windows-x86_64.zip
3. Did you extract the whole zip file and then start from that extracted folder? You can't run it from inside the zip file
4. You shouldn't have to do anything with the node.exe in Kibana. It doesn't need to be in your path.

Here's what I see when I start it;

D:\windowsInstalls\kibana-6.2.3-windows-x86_64\kibana-6.2.3-windows-x86_64>.\bin\kibana.bat
  log   [14:18:18.543] [info][status][plugin:kibana@6.2.3] Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready
  log   [14:18:18.598] [info][status][plugin:elasticsearch@6.2.3] Status changed from uninitialized to yellow - Waiting for Elasticsearch
  log   [14:18:18.769] [info][status][plugin:timelion@6.2.3] Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready
  log   [14:18:18.780] [info][status][plugin:console@6.2.3] Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready
  log   [14:18:18.786] [info][status][plugin:metrics@6.2.3] Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready
  log   [14:18:18.813] [info][listening] Server running at http://localhost:5601

If you're still getting the error you might want to try changing the first line of kibana.bat from @echo off to @echo on and run it again and paste that output here.

Thanks,
Lee

[LaonWeis]

Hi LeeDr,

I went through your questions and:

1. It is Windows 7 64 bit
2. Yes I downloaded this file
3. I extracted whole zip file using 7-zip, and started from the extracted folder
4. I removed the path to node.exe in Kibana

Here is the output when I changed @echo off to @echo on:

[LeeDr (Lee Drengenberg)]

Can you tells us what kind of computer this is and maybe paste a screenshot of the system information with CPU type like this;

Thanks,
Lee