# Not able to start elasticsearch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-elasticsearch/216996
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 29, 2020, 12:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-elasticsearch/216996 "2020-01-29T12:29:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Aayush\_Agrawal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aayush_Agrawal)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2020, 12:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-elasticsearch/216996/1 "2020-01-29T12:29:21Z")
My ELK setup on unix box was working fine, but elasticsearch and kibana stopped working.
I restarted both services using` /etc/init.d/elasticsearch restart` and `/etc/init.d/kibana restart`.
Kibana started working but elasticsearch did not.
```
# /etc/init.d/elasticsearch restart
Stopping elasticsearch: [OK]
/etc/init.d/elasticsearch: line 105: result: command not found
Tue Jan 28 14:32:59 EST 2020 [INFO] Setting elasticsearch heap to -Xms64531m -Xmx64531m as Preformatted textdefault. Override this in /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.conf if needed.
Starting elasticsearch: nohup: appending output to `nohup.out'
```
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### Author:  [@inhinyera16](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/inhinyera16)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2020, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-elasticsearch/216996/2 "2020-01-29T14:52:49Z")
You can check the elasticsearch logs found under /var/log/elasticsearch (default)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2020, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-elasticsearch/216996/3 "2020-02-26T14:52:56Z")
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