# Lumberjack is not able to open port

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lumberjack-is-not-able-to-open-port/39275
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [January 14, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lumberjack-is-not-able-to-open-port/39275 "2016-01-14T21:14:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![NiteshBarnwal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e495f1/32.png) [@NiteshBarnwal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NiteshBarnwal)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lumberjack-is-not-able-to-open-port/39275/1 "2016-01-14T21:14:45Z")

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Logstash is not getting started, though it was working few hours ago. seems like lumberjack is not able to open the port

log trace:

> Starting lumberjack input listener {:address=\>"0.0.0.0:5534", :level=\>:info, :file=\>"logstash/inputs/lumberjack.rb", :line=\>"49", :method=\>"register"}  
> The error reported is:  
> No message available  
> org/jruby/ext/openssl/X509Cert.java:204:in `initialize' org/jruby/ext/openssl/X509Cert.java:181:in `initialize'  
> /installdir/ELK/logstash-1.5.4/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/jls-lumberjack-0.0.24/lib/lumberjack/server.rb:42:in `initialize' /installdir/ELK/logstash-1.5.4/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-input-lumberjack-1.0.4/lib/logstash/inputs/lumberjack.rb:50:in `register'  
> /installdir/ELK/logstash-1.5.4/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-core-1.5.4-java/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:149:in `start_inputs' org/jruby/RubyArray.java:1613:in `each'  
> /installdir/ELK/logstash-1.5.4/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-core-1.5.4-java/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:148:in `start_inputs' /installdir/ELK/logstash-1.5.4/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-core-1.5.4-java/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:81:in `run'  
> org/jruby/ext/thread/Mutex.java:149:in `synchronize' /installdir/ELK/logstash-1.5.4/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-core-1.5.4-java/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:81:in `run'  
> /installdir/ELK/logstash-1.5.4/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-core-1.5.4-java/lib/logstash/agent.rb:155:in `execute' /installdir/ELK/logstash-1.5.4/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-core-1.5.4-java/lib/logstash/runner.rb:90:in `run'  
> org/jruby/RubyProc.java:271:in `call' /installdir/ELK/logstash-1.5.4/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-core-1.5.4-java/lib/logstash/runner.rb:95:in `run'  
> org/jruby/RubyProc.java:271:in `call' /installdir/ELK/logstash-1.5.4/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/stud-0.0.21/lib/stud/task.rb:12:in `initialize'

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### Author: ![NiteshBarnwal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e495f1/32.png) [@NiteshBarnwal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NiteshBarnwal)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2016, 9:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lumberjack-is-not-able-to-open-port/39275/2 "2016-01-15T09:40:56Z")

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issue resolved now 🙂

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### Author: ![xamox](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/xamox/32/5447_2.png) [@xamox](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xamox)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lumberjack-is-not-able-to-open-port/39275/3 "2017-03-28T18:13:17Z")

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What was the solution?

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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, 4:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lumberjack-is-not-able-to-open-port/39275/4 "2017-07-06T04:27:29Z")

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