# Kibana Broken unless run using “/usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana --allow-root” command
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-broken-unless-run-using-usr-share-kibana-bin-kibana-allow-root-command/307513
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [June 17, 2022, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-broken-unless-run-using-usr-share-kibana-bin-kibana-allow-root-command/307513 "2022-06-17T13:00:48Z")
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### Author:  [@Micah\_Barsness](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Micah_Barsness)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2022, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-broken-unless-run-using-usr-share-kibana-bin-kibana-allow-root-command/307513/1 "2022-06-17T13:00:48Z")
Pre upgrade to 8.2.3 I was able to start kibana with 'systemctl start kibana' but it just fails over and over again after the upgrade.
I found I am able to run Kibana using
```auto
/usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana --allow-root
```
It looks like I upgraded as root so I'm not sure why this would be a problem:
```auto
root@xxxx1:/usr/share/kibana/bin# ls -al
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 16 14:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jun 16 14:55 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 835 Jun 8 10:42 kibana
```
& Here his the .yml file.
```auto
root@xxxx:/etc/kibana# ls -al
total 36
drwxr-s--- 2 root kibana 4096 Jun 16 14:57 .
drwxr-xr-x 118 root root 12288 Jun 16 14:55 ..
-rw-rw---- 1 root kibana 130 Jun 16 14:55 kibana.keystore
-rw-r--r-- 1 root kibana 62 Jun 16 14:55 .kibana.keystore.initial_md5sum
-rw-rw---- 1 root kibana 7700 Jun 16 14:57 kibana.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root kibana 305 Jun 8 10:42 node.options
```
How do I fix this so I can use systemd to start up kibana normally?
---
### Author:  [@Micah\_Barsness](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Micah_Barsness)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2022, 2:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-broken-unless-run-using-usr-share-kibana-bin-kibana-allow-root-command/307513/2 "2022-06-17T14:06:08Z")
Resolved this myself using the following commands -
```auto
1991 apt-get remove --purge kibana
1993 rm -r /var/lib/kibana
1994 rm -r /etc/kibana
1995 useradd kibana
1996 groupadd kibana
1997 usermod -a -G kibana kibana
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl start kibana
systemctl status kibana
journalctl -fu kibana.service
```
Also had this error:
```auto
Generating a random key for xpack.reporting.encryptionKey. To prevent sessions from being invalidated on restart, please set xpack.reporting.encryptionKey in the kibana.yml or use the bin/kibana-encryption-keys command.
```
Resolved by:
```auto
/usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana-encryption-keys generate
```
Paste output keys into kibana.yml at the bottom
And lastly this error:
```auto
Unable to retrieve version information from Elasticsearch nodes. security_exception: [security_exception] Reason: missing authentication credentials for REST request [/_nodes?filter_path=nodes.*.version%2Cnodes.*.http.publish_address%2Cnodes.*.ip]
```
Requires you to set up your basic authentication credentials in kibana.yml or have pre-upgrade generated a token via this command (using the dev tools in kibana):
```auto
POST /_security/service/elastic/kibana/credential/token
```
```auto
elasticsearch.serviceAccountToken: "paste generated token here"
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2022, 2:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-broken-unless-run-using-usr-share-kibana-bin-kibana-allow-root-command/307513/3 "2022-07-15T14:06:48Z")
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