# Kibana startup fails for kibana-4.4.1-1.x86\_64

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-startup-fails-for-kibana-4-4-1-1-x86-64/42765>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 25, 2016, 6:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-startup-fails-for-kibana-4-4-1-1-x86-64/42765 "2016-02-25T18:21:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![carlosq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@carlosq](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carlosq)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 6:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-startup-fails-for-kibana-4-4-1-1-x86-64/42765/1 "2016-02-25T18:21:53Z")

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Hi,

After installing, run Kibana from the install directory: bin/kibana and I got following error:

Error: Cannot find module '/opt/kibana/src/src/utils/packageJson'

you can see it has double /src in the path.

Please give a help,

thanks

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**Author:** ![LeeDr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leedr/32/9289_2.png) [@LeeDr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeDr)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-startup-fails-for-kibana-4-4-1-1-x86-64/42765/2 "2016-02-25T18:44:01Z")

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Can you describe what you downloaded and how you installed it?

Are you on Ubuntu 14.x?

Did you download and untar this?  
[https://download.elastic.co/kibana/kibana/kibana-4.4.1-linux-x64.tar.gz](https://download.elastic.co/kibana/kibana/kibana-4.4.1-linux-x64.tar.gz)

Or did you follow instructions here?  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/setup.html#install](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/setup.html#install)

Thanks,  
Lee

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**Author:** ![carlosq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@carlosq](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carlosq)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-startup-fails-for-kibana-4-4-1-1-x86-64/42765/3 "2016-02-25T19:00:31Z")

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Yes, I follow the instruction and used yum to install it on CentOS

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**Author:** ![LeeDr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leedr/32/9289_2.png) [@LeeDr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeDr)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 11:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-startup-fails-for-kibana-4-4-1-1-x86-64/42765/4 "2016-02-25T23:10:43Z")

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If you used yum to install the rpm you might want to start the service with `service kibana start`

It sounds like you're starting it by going to `/opt/kibana` and running `./bin/kibana` ?

I just uninstalled my 4.4.0 and then installed 4.4.1 on CentOS 7.2.1511 using yum. It starts for me using either method above.

If you haven't tried both methods could you please see if you get the same error in both cases? In the case of starting the service (using sudo or as root) you would get messages in `/var/log/messages` and when you start with `./bin/kibana` you should get the output in your console.

Thanks,  
Lee

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**Author:** ![carlosq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@carlosq](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carlosq)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-startup-fails-for-kibana-4-4-1-1-x86-64/42765/5 "2016-02-26T16:07:50Z")

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I installed 4.4.1 on CentOS 6.5. I tried both cases to start kibana and got same error messages.  
one is from console and one got from /var/log/kibana/kibana.stderr.

Thanks,

Carlos

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**Author:** ![carlosq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@carlosq](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carlosq)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 4:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-startup-fails-for-kibana-4-4-1-1-x86-64/42765/6 "2016-02-26T16:24:57Z")

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after I using yum to remove kibana and clean all the directories, then install it again. new I can start it no problem.

thanks,

Carlos

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**Author:** ![LeeDr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leedr/32/9289_2.png) [@LeeDr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeDr)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-startup-fails-for-kibana-4-4-1-1-x86-64/42765/7 "2016-02-26T20:05:17Z")

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Great to hear! Have fun!

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-startup-fails-for-kibana-4-4-1-1-x86-64/42765/8 "2017-07-06T14:00:55Z")

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