# Kibana no longer wants to start - says 2 X-Pack installed

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-no-longer-wants-to-start-says-2-x-pack-installed/141606>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 25, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-no-longer-wants-to-start-says-2-x-pack-installed/141606 "2018-07-25T14:37:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![mlemartien](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mlemartien/32/30958_2.png) [@mlemartien](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mlemartien)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-no-longer-wants-to-start-says-2-x-pack-installed/141606/1 "2018-07-25T14:37:27Z")

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Hi,

To the best of my knowledge, this instance of Kibana has been running for weeks without a problem. Something may have happened to the server config, but I cannot confirm it.

Long story short, when starting, Kibana now reports this error:

> <https://gist.github.com/jacquesclement/67afea57c6e69f08d0aa5c114ca92ec6>

However when listing the plugins using kibana-plugin list, this is what I get:

$ sudo /usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana-plugin list  
x-pack@6.2.4

Any thoughts?

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**Author:** ![Shaoranlaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@Shaoranlaos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shaoranlaos)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 5:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-no-longer-wants-to-start-says-2-x-pack-installed/141606/2 "2018-07-26T05:03:07Z")

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Have you updated Kibana to 6.3? if so you must deinstall the x-pack plugin because x-pack is no part of every installation

see [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/release-notes-6.3.0.html#breaking-6.3.0](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/release-notes-6.3.0.html#breaking-6.3.0)

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**Author:** ![spalger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spalger/32/14092_2.png) [@spalger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spalger)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 8:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-no-longer-wants-to-start-says-2-x-pack-installed/141606/3 "2018-07-26T20:54:18Z")

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Yeah, definitely looks like this was updated to use Kibana 6.3, as xpack is only found in the `node_modules` directory in Kibana 6.3

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**Author:** ![mlemartien](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mlemartien/32/30958_2.png) [@mlemartien](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mlemartien)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-no-longer-wants-to-start-says-2-x-pack-installed/141606/4 "2018-07-27T09:24:00Z")

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You were 100% right guys. Someone upgraded to 6.3 by accidentally running an Ansible playbook; this installed Kibana 6.3 without cleaning X-Pack.

Thanks a lot for putting me on the right path!

Cheers.

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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:** [August 24, 2018, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-no-longer-wants-to-start-says-2-x-pack-installed/141606/5 "2018-08-24T09:24:09Z")

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