# Logstash Fails To Startup
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-fails-to-startup/173022
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [March 19, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-fails-to-startup/173022 "2019-03-19T16:55:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@drod](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/drod)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-fails-to-startup/173022/1 "2019-03-19T16:55:08Z")
When I try to start up my logstash agent with a basic config, I get the following.
`[ERROR] 2019-03-19 16:50:26.469 [main] Logstash - java.lang.IllegalStateException: Logstash stopped processing because of an error: (LoadError) load error: jopenssl/load -- java.lang.InternalError: null`
The command I use to start it is below.
`logstash -e "input {stdin {}}output {stdout {}}" --debug`
I have tried running this as sudo also. Anybody have any suggestions on how to debug this.
I am running the following version of java.
`openjdk version "1.8.0_121" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 3.3.0) (Gentoo icedtea-3.3.0) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.121-b13, mixed mode)`
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### Author:  [@kharvey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kharvey)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-fails-to-startup/173022/2 "2019-03-20T15:49:58Z")
I haven't seen that error before. And your start command works on my test logstash setup.
Try Googling "load error: jopenssl/load". There are a handful of hits for logstash like this one:
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### Author:  [@drod](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/drod)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2019, 1:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-fails-to-startup/173022/3 "2019-03-21T01:34:11Z")
As suspected it was a java version issue. Java was updated to
```auto
openjdk version "1.8.0_171"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 3.8.0) (Gentoo icedtea-3.8.0)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.171-b11, mixed mode)
```
and all of a sudden it is working. Thanks for taking a look.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2019, 1:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-fails-to-startup/173022/4 "2019-04-18T01:34:11Z")
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