# Logstash 8.1.0-1 fails to start
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-8-1-0-1-fails-to-start/300059
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [March 18, 2022, 3:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-8-1-0-1-fails-to-start/300059 "2022-03-18T15:13:12Z")
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### Author:  [@lmalossi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lmalossi)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2022, 3:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-8-1-0-1-fails-to-start/300059/1 "2022-03-18T15:13:12Z")
Hi all,
I'm trying to start logstash with systemctl but in log i get the following
```auto
[2022-03-18T16:07:32,888][INFO][logstash.runner] Log4j configuration path used is: /etc/logstash/log4j2.properties
[2022-03-18T16:07:32,895][INFO][logstash.runner] Starting Logstash {"logstash.version"=>"8.1.0", "jruby.version"=>"jruby 9.2.20.1 (2.5.8) 2021-11-30 2a2962fbd1 OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 11.0.13+8 on 11.0.13+8 +indy +jit [linux-x86_64]"}
[2022-03-18T16:07:32,898][INFO][logstash.runner] JVM bootstrap flags: [-Xms1g, -Xmx1g, -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC, -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75, -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly, -Djava.awt.headless=true, -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8, -Djruby.compile.invokedynamic=true, -Djruby.jit.threshold=0, -Djruby.regexp.interruptible=true, -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError, -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/urandom, -Dlog4j2.isThreadContextMapInheritable=true, --add-opens=java.base/java.security=ALL-UNNAMED, --add-opens=java.base/java.io=ALL-UNNAMED, --add-opens=java.base/java.nio.channels=ALL-UNNAMED, --add-opens=java.base/sun.nio.ch=ALL-UNNAMED, --add-opens=java.management/sun.management=ALL-UNNAMED]
[2022-03-18T16:07:32,905][DEBUG][logstash.modules.scaffold] Found module {:module_name=>"fb_apache", :directory=>"/usr/share/logstash/modules/fb_apache/configuration"}
[2022-03-18T16:07:32,906][DEBUG][logstash.plugins.registry] Adding plugin to the registry {:name=>"fb_apache", :type=>:modules, :class=>#}
[2022-03-18T16:07:32,908][DEBUG][logstash.modules.scaffold] Found module {:module_name=>"netflow", :directory=>"/usr/share/logstash/modules/netflow/configuration"}
[2022-03-18T16:07:32,909][DEBUG][logstash.plugins.registry] Adding plugin to the registry {:name=>"netflow", :type=>:modules, :class=>#}
[2022-03-18T16:07:32,934][FATAL][org.logstash.Logstash] Logstash stopped processing because of an error: (SystemExit) exit
org.jruby.exceptions.SystemExit: (SystemExit) exit
at org.jruby.RubyKernel.exit(org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:747) ~[jruby.jar:?]
at org.jruby.RubyKernel.exit(org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:710) ~[jruby.jar:?]
at usr.share.logstash.lib.bootstrap.environment.(/usr/share/logstash/lib/bootstrap/environment.rb:94) ~[?:?]
```
If I try to run
```auto
/usr/share/logstash/bin/logstash --config.test_and_exit -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/
```
everything goes well
any suggestions?
Luca
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-8-1-0-1-fails-to-start/300059/2 "2022-04-15T15:14:03Z")
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