# Not able to start elastic Service

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-elastic-service/263347>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 5, 2021, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-elastic-service/263347 "2021-02-05T08:33:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![pnrao.83](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df788c/32.png) [@pnrao.83](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pnrao.83)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2021, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-elastic-service/263347/1 "2021-02-05T08:33:39Z")

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Hi Team,

i am trying to configure and use elastic search and Kibana. But i was stuck at starting the elastic service in my Oracle Linux Machine. Please find the below logs and yaml file and help:  
cat /var/log/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.log  
[2021-02-05T08:12:55,780][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [inoclams2] version[7.10.2], pid[13585], build[default/rpm/747e1cc71def077253878a59143c1f785afa92b9/2021-01-13T00:42:12.435326Z], OS[Linux/4.18.0-147.0.3.el8\_1.x86\_64/amd64], JVM[AdoptOpenJDK/OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM/15.0.1/15.0.1+9]  
[2021-02-05T08:12:55,785][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [inoclams2] JVM home [/usr/share/elasticsearch/jdk], using bundled JDK [true]  
[2021-02-05T08:12:55,786][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [inoclams2] JVM arguments [-Xshare:auto, -Des.networkaddress.cache.ttl=60, -Des.networkaddress.cache.negative.ttl=10, -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch, -Xss1m, -Djava.awt.headless=true, -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8, -Djna.nosys=true, -XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow, -XX:+ShowCodeDetailsInExceptionMessages, -Dio.netty.noUnsafe=true, -Dio.netty.noKeySetOptimization=true, -Dio.netty.recycler.maxCapacityPerThread=0, -Dio.netty.allocator.numDirectArenas=0, -Dlog4j.shutdownHookEnabled=false, -Dlog4j2.disable.jmx=true, -Djava.locale.providers=SPI,COMPAT, -Xms1g, -Xmx1g, -XX:+UseG1GC, -XX:G1ReservePercent=25, -XX:InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent=30, -[2021-02-05T08:13:00,387][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [lang-expression]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,387][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [lang-mustache]  
[search-business-rules]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,391][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [searchable-snapshots]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,392][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [spatial]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,392][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [systemd]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,392][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [transform]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,393][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [transport-netty4]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,393][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [unsigned-long]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,393][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [vectors]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,394][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [wildcard]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,394][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [x-pack-analytics]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,394][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [x-pack-async]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,395][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [x-pack-async-search]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,395][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [x-pack-autoscaling]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,395][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [x-pack-ccr]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,396][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [x-pack-core]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,396][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [x-pack-data-streams]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,397][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [x-pack-deprecation]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,397][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [x-pack-enrich]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,397][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [x-pack-eql]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,398][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [x-pack-graph]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,398][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [x-pack-identity-provider]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,399][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [x-pack-ilm]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,399][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [x-pack-logstash]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,399][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [x-pack-ml]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,400][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [x-pack-monitoring]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,400][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [x-pack-ql]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,401][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [x-pack-rollup]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,401][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [x-pack-security]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,401][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [x-pack-sql]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,402][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [x-pack-stack]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,402][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [x-pack-voting-only-node]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,402][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [x-pack-watcher]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,403][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] no plugins loaded  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,472][ERROR][o.e.b.Bootstrap] [inoclams2] Exception  
java.lang.IllegalStateException: failed to obtain node locks, tried [[/var/lib/elasticsearch]] with lock id [0]; maybe these locations are not writable or multiple nodes were started without increasing [node.max\_local\_storage\_nodes] (was [1])?  
at org.elasticsearch.env.NodeEnvironment.(NodeEnvironment.java:302) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:362) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:289) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap$5.(Bootstrap.java:227) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:227) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:393) [elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:170) [elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:161) [elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86) [elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:127) [elasticsearch-cli-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90) [elasticsearch-cli-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:126) [elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:92) [elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
Caused by: java.io.IOException: failed to obtain lock on /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0  
obtain node locks, tried [[/var/lib/elasticsearch]] with lock id [0]; maybe these locations are not writable or multiple nodes were started without increasing [node.max\_local\_storage\_nodes] (was [1])?  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:174) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:161) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:127) ~[elasticsearch-cli-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90) ~[elasticsearch-cli-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:126) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:92) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: failed to obtain node locks, tried [[/var/lib/elasticsearch]] with lock id [0]; maybe these locations are not writable or multiple nodes were started without increasing [node.max\_local\_storage\_nodes] (was [1])?  
at org.elasticsearch.env.NodeEnvironment.(NodeEnvironment.java:302) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:362) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:289) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap$5.(Bootstrap.java:227) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:227) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:393) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:170) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
... 6 more  
Caused by: java.io.IOException: failed to obtain lock on /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0  
at org.elasticsearch.env.NodeEnvironment$NodeLock.(NodeEnvironment.java:224) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.env.NodeEnvironment.(NodeEnvironment.java:272) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:362) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:289) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap$5.(Bootstrap.java:227) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:227) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:393) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:170) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
... 6 more  
Caused by: java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0/node.lock  
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:90) ~[?:?]  
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:106) ~[?:?]  
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:111) ~[?:?]  
at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newFileChannel(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:181) ~[?:?]  
at java.nio.channels.FileChannel.open(FileChannel.java:292) ~[?:?]  
at java.nio.channels.FileChannel.open(FileChannel.java:345) ~[?:?]  
at org.apache.lucene.store.NativeFSLockFactory.obtainFSLock(NativeFSLockFactory.java:125) ~[lucene-core-8.7.0.jar:8.7.0 2dc63e901c60cda27ef3b744bc554f1481b3b067 - atrisharma - 2020-10-29 19:35:28]  
at org.apache.lucene.store.FSLockFactory.obtainLock(FSLockFactory.java:41) ~[lucene-core-8.7.0.jar:8.7.0 2dc63e901c60cda27ef3b744bc554f1481b3b067 - atrisharma - 2020-10-29 19:35:28]  
at org.apache.lucene.store.BaseDirectory.obtainLock(BaseDirectory.java:45) ~[lucene-core-8.7.0.jar:8.7.0 2dc63e901c60cda27ef3b744bc554f1481b3b067 - atrisharma - 2020-10-29 19:35:28]  
at org.elasticsearch.env.NodeEnvironment$NodeLock.(NodeEnvironment.java:217) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.env.NodeEnvironment.(NodeEnvironment.java:272) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:362) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:289) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap$5.(Bootstrap.java:227) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:227) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:393) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:170) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
... 6 more

cat /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml

cluster.name lab

node.name lab1

path.data /var/lib/elasticsearch

path.logs /var/log/elasticsearch

bootstrap.memory\_lock true

network.host 0.0.0.0

http.port 9200

discovery.type 'single-node'

indices.query.bool.max\_clause\_count 8192

search.max\_buckets 250000

action.destructive\_requires\_name 'true'

reindex.remote.whitelist '_:_'

xpack.monitoring.enabled 'true'

xpack.monitoring.collection.enabled 'true'

xpack.monitoring.collection.interval 30s

xpack.security.enabled 'true'

xpack security.audit.enabled 'false'

node.ml 'false'

xpack.ml.enabled 'false'

xpack.watcher.enabled 'false'

xpack.ilm.enabled 'true'

xpack.sql.enabled 'true'

ll /var/lib/elasticsearch/  
total 0  
drwxr-sr-x. 3 elasticsearch elasticsearch 15 Feb 4 02:53 nodes

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**Author:** ![keyofstarrysky973](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e5b9ba/32.png) [@keyofstarrysky973](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/keyofstarrysky973)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2021, 4:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-elastic-service/263347/2 "2021-02-05T16:37:46Z")

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Hey I found the following thread : [Unable to start elasticsearch as service - #5 by Kajol\_Nimesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-start-elasticsearch-as-service/178440/5)

It seems that you have a permission issue for the elastic directory /var/lib/elasticsearch :

> Caused by: java.io.IOException: failed to obtain lock on /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0

The reported solution is to give root permission to that directory : `sudo chown -R elasticsearch:elasticsearch /var/lib/elasticsearch`

Whether or not this is best practice from a security standpoint is unkwon to me. Try this solution, and pls tell if it worked for you.

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**Author:** ![pnrao.83](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df788c/32.png) [@pnrao.83](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pnrao.83)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 1:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-elastic-service/263347/3 "2021-02-06T01:04:05Z")

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Nope, it dint worked out... i have changed the permission and tried again.. please find the below out put again:  
[root@inoclams2 ~]# ls -la /var/lib/elasticsearch/  
total 4  
drwxr-s---. 3 elasticsearch elasticsearch 19 Jan 13 00:55 .  
drwxr-xr-x. 45 root root 4096 Feb 5 08:03 ..  
drwxr-sr-x. 3 elasticsearch elasticsearch 15 Feb 4 02:53 nodes  
[root@inoclams2 ~]# ls -ld /var/lib/elasticsearch/  
drwxr-s---. 3 elasticsearch elasticsearch 19 Jan 13 00:55 /var/lib/elasticsearch/  
[root@inoclams2 ~]# chown -R elasticsearch:elasticsearch /var/lib/elasticsearch/  
[root@inoclams2 ~]# ls -la /var/lib/elasticsearch/  
total 4  
drwxr-s---. 3 elasticsearch elasticsearch 19 Jan 13 00:55 .  
drwxr-xr-x. 45 root root 4096 Feb 5 08:03 ..  
drwxr-sr-x. 3 elasticsearch elasticsearch 15 Feb 4 02:53 nodes  
[root@inoclams2 ~]# systemctl start elasticsearch  
Job for elasticsearch.service failed because the control process exited with error code.  
See "systemctl status elasticsearch.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.  
[root@inoclams2 ~]# cat /var/log/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.log  
[2021-02-05T08:12:55,780][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [inoclams2] version[7.10.2], pid[13585], build[default/rpm/747e1cc71def077253878a59143c1f785afa92b9/2021-01-13T00:42:12.435326Z], OS[Linux/4.18.0-147.0.3.el8\_1.x86\_64/amd64], JVM[AdoptOpenJDK/OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM/15.0.1/15.0.1+9]  
[2021-02-05T08:12:55,785][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [inoclams2] JVM home [/usr/share/elasticsearch/jdk], using bundled JDK [true]  
[2021-02-05T08:12:55,786][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [inoclams2] JVM arguments [-Xshare:auto, -Des.networkaddress.cache.ttl=60, -Des.networkaddress.cache.negative.ttl=10, -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch, -Xss1m, -Djava.awt.headless=true, -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8, -Djna.nosys=true, -XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow, -XX:+ShowCodeDetailsInExceptionMessages, -Dio.netty.noUnsafe=true, -Dio.netty.noKeySetOptimization=true, -Dio.netty.recycler.maxCapacityPerThread=0, -Dio.netty.allocator.numDirectArenas=0, -Dlog4j.shutdownHookEnabled=false, -Dlog4j2.disable.jmx=true, -Djava.locale.providers=SPI,COMPAT, -Xms1g, -Xmx1g, -XX:+UseG1GC, -XX:G1ReservePercent=25, -XX:InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent=30, -Djava.io.tmpdir=/tmp/elasticsearch-15173963832289045179, -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError, -XX:HeapDumpPath=/var/lib/elasticsearch, -XX:ErrorFile=/var/log/elasticsearch/hs\_err\_pid%p.log, -Xlog:gc\*,gc+age=trace,safepoint:file=/var/log/elasticsearch/gc.log:utctime,pid,tags:filecount=32,filesize=64m, -XX:MaxDirectMemorySize=536870912, -Des.path.home=/usr/share/elasticsearch, -Des.path.conf=/etc/elasticsearch, -Des.distribution.flavor=default, -Des.distribution.type=rpm, -Des.bundled\_jdk=true]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,383][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [aggs-matrix-stats]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,402][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] loaded module [x-pack-watcher]  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,403][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [inoclams2] no plugins loaded  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,472][ERROR][o.e.b.Bootstrap] [inoclams2] Exception  
java.lang.IllegalStateException: failed to obtain node locks, tried [[/var/lib/elasticsearch]] with lock id [0]; maybe these locations are not writable or multiple nodes were started without increasing [node.max\_local\_storage\_nodes] (was [1])?  
at org.elasticsearch.env.NodeEnvironment.(NodeEnvironment.java:302) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:362) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:289) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap$5.(Bootstrap.java:227) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:227) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:393) [elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:170) [elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:161) [elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86) [elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:127) [elasticsearch-cli-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90) [elasticsearch-cli-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:126) [elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:92) [elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
Caused by: java.io.IOException: failed to obtain lock on /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0  
at org.elasticsearch.env.NodeEnvironment$NodeLock.(NodeEnvironment.java:224) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.env.NodeEnvironment.(NodeEnvironment.java:272) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
... 12 more  
Caused by: java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0/node.lock  
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:90) ~[?:?]  
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:106) ~[?:?]  
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:111) ~[?:?]  
at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newFileChannel(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:181) ~[?:?]  
at java.nio.channels.FileChannel.open(FileChannel.java:292) ~[?:?]  
at java.nio.channels.FileChannel.open(FileChannel.java:345) ~[?:?]  
at org.apache.lucene.store.NativeFSLockFactory.obtainFSLock(NativeFSLockFactory.java:125) ~[lucene-core-8.7.0.jar:8.7.0 2dc63e901c60cda27ef3b744bc554f1481b3b067 - atrisharma - 2020-10-29 19:35:28]  
at org.apache.lucene.store.FSLockFactory.obtainLock(FSLockFactory.java:41) ~[lucene-core-8.7.0.jar:8.7.0 2dc63e901c60cda27ef3b744bc554f1481b3b067 - atrisharma - 2020-10-29 19:35:28]  
at org.apache.lucene.store.BaseDirectory.obtainLock(BaseDirectory.java:45) ~[lucene-core-8.7.0.jar:8.7.0 2dc63e901c60cda27ef3b744bc554f1481b3b067 - atrisharma - 2020-10-29 19:35:28]  
at org.elasticsearch.env.NodeEnvironment$NodeLock.(NodeEnvironment.java:217) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.env.NodeEnvironment.(NodeEnvironment.java:272) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
... 12 more  
[2021-02-05T08:13:00,485][ERROR][o.e.b.ElasticsearchUncaughtExceptionHandler] [inoclams2] uncaught exception in thread [main]  
org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.StartupException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: failed to obtain node locks, tried [[/var/lib/elasticsearch]] with lock id [0]; maybe these locations are not writable or multiple nodes were started without increasing [node.max\_local\_storage\_nodes] (was [1])?  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:174) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:161) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:127) ~[elasticsearch-cli-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90) ~[elasticsearch-cli-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:126) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:92) ~[elasticsearch-7.10.2.jar:7.10.2]

[root@inoclams2 ~]# ll /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0/node.lock  
-rw-r--r--. 1 elasticsearch elasticsearch 0 Feb 5 07:04 /var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0/node.lock  
[root@inoclams2 ~]#

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Hi Pnrao,

Please format your codes and errors under preformatted text \</\> or backticks (```) as it is really hard to read otherwise.

```
java.lang.IllegalStateException: failed to obtain node locks, 

```

If this was not due to file permission issue,  
Could you check if the process is not being stopped properly (any existing process running even if when

> systemctl status elasticsearch

shows inactive?

`sudo ps -aux | grep elasticsearch`

Hope this can help with the troubleshooting.

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`[root@inoclams2 ~]# systemctl status elasticsearch'`  
`● elasticsearch.service - Elasticsearch`  
` Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)`  
`Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service.d`  
' └─elasticsearch.conf` `Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2021-02-06 00:59:23 GMT; 6h ago` ` Docs: [https://www.elastic.co](https://www.elastic.co)` `Process: 29391 ExecStart=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/systemd-entrypoint -p ${PID\_DIR}/elasticsearch.pid --quiet (code=exited, statu\>` `Main PID: 29391 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)`

`Feb 06 00:59:23 inoclams2 systemd-entrypoint[29391]: at org.yaml.snakeyaml.scanner.ScannerImpl.needMoreTokens(ScannerImpl.java>`  
`Feb 06 00:59:23 inoclams2 systemd-entrypoint[29391]: at org.yaml.snakeyaml.scanner.ScannerImpl.checkToken(ScannerImpl.java:226)`  
`Feb 06 00:59:23 inoclams2 systemd-entrypoint[29391]: at org.yaml.snakeyaml.parser.ParserImpl$ParseBlockMappingKey.produce(Pars>`  
`Feb 06 00:59:23 inoclams2 systemd-entrypoint[29391]: at org.yaml.snakeyaml.parser.ParserImpl.peekEvent(ParserImpl.java:158)`  
`Feb 06 00:59:23 inoclams2 systemd-entrypoint[29391]: at org.yaml.snakeyaml.parser.ParserImpl.getEvent(ParserImpl.java:168)`  
`Feb 06 00:59:23 inoclams2 systemd-entrypoint[29391]: at com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.yaml.YAMLParser.nextToken(YAMLParser.>`  
`Feb 06 00:59:23 inoclams2 systemd-entrypoint[29391]: ... 14 more`  
`Feb 06 00:59:23 inoclams2 systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILUR'E`  
`Feb 06 00:59:23 inoclams2 systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.`  
`Feb 06 00:59:23 inoclams2 systemd[1]: Failed to start Elasticsearch.`

`[root@inoclams2 ~]# ps -aux | grep elasticsearch`  
`root 2554 0.0 0.0 12108 1052 pts/0 S+ 07:00 0:00 grep --color=auto elasticsearch`

My config File:

`node.max_local_storage_nodes: 1`  
`path.data: /var/lib/elasticsearch`  
`path.logas: /var/log/elasticsearch`  
` `bootstrap.memory\_lock: true` `  
`network.host: 132.145.62.111`  
`http.port: 9200`  
` `discovery.type 'single-node'` `  
`indices.query.bool.max_clause_count 8192`  
`search.max_buckets 250000`  
` `action.destructive\_requires\_name 'true` `reindex.remote.whitelist '_:_'` `  
`xpack.monitoring.enabled 'true'`  
`xpack.monitoring.collection.enabled 'true'`  
`xpack.monitoring.collection.interval 30s'`  
` `xpack.security.enabled 'true'` `xpack security.audit.enabled 'false'` `  
`node.ml 'false'`  
`xpack.ml.enabled 'false'`  
` `xpack.watcher.enabled 'false'` `  
`xpack.ilm.enabled 'true'`  
` `xpack.sql.enabled 'true'`

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If it isn't a permission issue, then it's most likely an issue with running processes. There probably is an elasticsearch instance that has not been properly terminated. Can you try changing the default port number, like for example : `http.port: 9201`

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