Java.util.zip.ZipException

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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Hi All,

I am getting below exception while trying to bring up ES 2.1

Exception in thread "main" java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file
	at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
	at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:220)
	at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:150)
	at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:166)
	at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:103)
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.JarHell.checkJarHell(JarHell.java:174)
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.JarHell.checkJarHell(JarHell.java:87)
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:164)
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:285)
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:35)
Refer to the log for complete error details.

Did anyone face this problem?

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Something else in logs?

May be you unzipped as root but run the process as a user? I mean you don't have enough rights.

May be you installed plugins?

Well you have to describe all the steps you did.

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Check all jars on the classpath if they have the correct ownership and can be opened by ES process.

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Hi David/Jorg,

Below are the steps which I followed.

  1. Downloaded the tar on my mac.
  2. SCP it into my unix box.
  3. Untar (folder is elasticsearch)
  4. chmod -R 755 elasticsearch
  5. chown -R elasticuser:elasticuser elasticsearch
  6. Start elasticsearch as a "elasticuser"

And there are no more logs in the log file other than this.

Thanks,

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I can not reproduce.

Do the following steps:

  1. Download elasticsearch-2.1.0.tar.gz
  2. scp it to the Linux box e.g. to a private non-root account
  3. log into Linux box
  4. become root (to move elasticsearch-2.1.0.tar.gz to user elasticuser)
  5. move elasticsearch-2.1.0.tar.gz to home of user elasticuser
  6. untar to folder ~elasticuser/elasticsearch-2.1.0
  7. chown -R elasticuser:elasticuser ~elasticuser/elasticsearch-2.1.0
  8. become elasticuser
  9. cd ~elasticuser/elasticsearch-2.1.0
  10. ./bin/elasticsearch
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did you have any ._* type of files in your directory structure?

I faced the same problem today. I got a zipped version of elasticsearch for windows that someone had downloaded, unzipped, and zipped again via a mac (don't ask why). It seems that for each file in the zipped version, there was a corresponding ._ kind of file. After deleting all these, elasticsearch startet to work again.

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If you run tar or zip on Mac, you must not forget to set COPYFILE_DISABLE variable by export COPYFILE_DISABLE=true

8

Thank you so much. I didn't zip anything from Mac OS but I did start using elasticSearch in mac, and those files were everywhere! I would have never be able to find this out on my own, thank you again

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This worked for me too! Thanks!