# Kibana fails

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-fails/121402>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 25, 2018, 6:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-fails/121402 "2018-02-25T18:54:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![daytonpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7993a0/32.png) [@daytonpa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/daytonpa)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2018, 6:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-fails/121402/1 "2018-02-25T18:54:29Z")

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Kibana is not accepting incomming connections, and I cannot find anything regarding this error below. I am not sure if this is a permissions issue, but this error is from `/var/log/kibana/kibana.log`

```auto
{
  "type":"log",
  "@timestamp":"2018-02-25T18:22:31Z",
  "tags":["pid","warning"],
  "pid":"6770",
  "path":"/var/run/kibana.pid",
  "message":"pid file already exists at /var/run/kibana.pid"
}
{
  "type":"log",
  "@timestamp":"2018-02-25T18:22:31Z",
  "tags":["fatal"],
  "pid":6770,
  "level":"fatal",
  "message":"child \"elasticsearch\" fails because [\"shardTimout\" is not allowed]",
  "error":{
    "message":"child \"elasticsearch\" fails because [\"shardTimout\" is not allowed]",
    "name":"ValidationError",
    "stack":"ValidationError: child \"elasticsearch\" fails because [\"shardTimout\" is not allowed]\n    
      at Object.exports.process (/usr/share/kibana/node_modules/joi/lib/errors.js:140:17)\n    
      at internals.Any._validateWithOptions (/usr/share/kibana/node_modules/joi/lib/any.js:649:25)\n
      at root.validate (/usr/share/kibana/node_modules/joi/lib/index.js:102:23)\n
      at Config._commit (/usr/share/kibana/src/server/config/config.js:134:38)\n
      at Config.set (/usr/share/kibana/src/server/config/config.js:104:12)\n
      at Config.extendSchema (/usr/share/kibana/src/server/config/config.js:74:12)\n
      at /usr/share/kibana/src/server/plugins/plugin_collection.js:21:10\n at undefined.next (native)\n
      at step (/usr/share/kibana/src/server/plugins/plugin_collection.js:32:273)"
  }
}

```

If anyone has any input regarding what this error is, I would very much appreciate it.

Kibana version: 5.3.3  
Elasticsearch version: 5.6.5  
OS: Ubuntu 16.04

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**Author:** ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-fails/121402/2 "2018-02-27T18:52:33Z")

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It looks like you are setting `elasticsearch.shardTimeout` in your Kibana configuration, which is not available in 5.3.

Here are the configuration options for 5.3: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/5.3/settings.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/5.3/settings.html)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-fails/121402/3 "2018-03-27T18:52:52Z")

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