# Logstash 6 Failes on start

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-6-failes-on-start/104417>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [October 18, 2017, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-6-failes-on-start/104417 "2017-10-18T14:53:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![lkofman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@lkofman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lkofman)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-6-failes-on-start/104417/1 "2017-10-18T14:53:08Z")

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When I start Logstash 6 from cmd -Installed on Windows 7 -  
logstash -e --modules : it failes on creation pipeline creation

Sending Logstash's logs to C:/DoLense/logstash/logs which is now configured via log4j2.properties  
[2017-10-18T16:49:25,478][INFO][logstash.modules.scaffold] Initializing module {:module\_name=\>"fb\_apache", :directory=\>"C:/DoLense/logstash/modules/fb\_apache/configuration"}  
[2017-10-18T16:49:25,491][INFO][logstash.modules.scaffold] Initializing module {:module\_name=\>"netflow", :directory=\>"C:/DoLense/logstash/modules/netflow/configuration"}  
[2017-10-18T16:49:25,595][WARN][logstash.config.source.multilocal] Ignoring the 'pipelines.yml' file because modules or command line options are specified  
[2017-10-18T16:49:27,329][ERROR][logstash.agent] Failed to execute action {:action=\>LogStash::PipelineAction::Create/pipeline\_id:main, :exception=\>"LogStash::ConfigurationError", :message=\>  
"Expected one of #, input, filter, output at line 3, column 1 (byte 76) after "}

even on line 3 exists #

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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:** [November 15, 2017, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-6-failes-on-start/104417/2 "2017-11-15T14:53:22Z")

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