# Logstash failing to start as checkpoint file is missing... How to resolve?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-failing-to-start-as-checkpoint-file-is-missing-how-to-resolve/197640>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [September 2, 2019, 3:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-failing-to-start-as-checkpoint-file-is-missing-how-to-resolve/197640 "2019-09-02T03:31:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![ramsateesh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ramsateesh/32/47210_2.png) [@ramsateesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ramsateesh)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 3:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-failing-to-start-as-checkpoint-file-is-missing-how-to-resolve/197640/1 "2019-09-02T03:31:58Z")

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Hi Team,

I have logstash running as a container. When I restart logstash container it's failing with below error:  
ERROR s.r.NativeMethodAccessorImpl [LogStash::Runner] Logstash failed to create queue {"exception"=\>"java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /usr/share/logstash/data/queue/main/checkpoint.109", "backtrace"=\>["sun/nio/fs/UnixException.java:86:in `translateToIOException'", "sun/nio/fs/UnixException.java:102:in`rethrowAsIOException'", "sun/nio/fs/UnixException.java:107:in `rethrowAsIOException'", "sun/nio/fs/UnixFileSystemProvider.java:214:in`newByteChannel'", "java/nio/file/Files.java:361:in `newByteChannel'", "java/nio/file/Files.java:407:in`newByteChannel'", "java/nio/file/Files.java:3152:in `readAllBytes'", "org/logstash/ackedqueue/io/FileCheckpointIO.java:56:in`read'", "org/logstash/ackedqueue/Queue.java:200:in `open'", "org/logstash/ackedqueue/ext/JrubyAckedQueueExtLibrary.java:132:in`ruby\_open'", "org/logstash/ackedqueue/ext/JrubyAckedQueueExtLibrary$RubyAckedQueue$INVOKER$i$0$0$ruby\_open.gen:-1:in `call'", "org/jruby/runtime/callsite/CachingCallSite.java:306:in`cacheAndCall'", "org/jruby/runtime/callsite/CachingCallSite.java:136:in `call'",

I am using 5.6.8 with avro codec.

Thank you  
Ram T

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**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 12:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-failing-to-start-as-checkpoint-file-is-missing-how-to-resolve/197640/2 "2019-09-02T12:20:30Z")

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What do the input and output configuration look like?

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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:** [September 30, 2019, 12:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-failing-to-start-as-checkpoint-file-is-missing-how-to-resolve/197640/3 "2019-09-30T12:20:42Z")

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