# Prevent Elasticsearch 6.5 from loading xpack? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 8, 2019, 12:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prevent-elasticsearch-6-5-from-loading-xpack/171403 "2019-03-08T00:13:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jw-ovgd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@jw-ovgd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jw-ovgd)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 12:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prevent-elasticsearch-6-5-from-loading-xpack/171403/1 "2019-03-08T00:13:26Z")
Hi, I am upgrading from ES 5.5 to ES 6.5 and I see now that xpack is being bundled with ES 6.5 (since ES 6.3). Is there anyway to prevent Elasticsearch from trying to load the xpack plugin? Something I can put in my elasticsearch.yml file? We didn't use xpack before and this is causing the installation of our product to fail because we rely on Elasticsearch to start. Here is the exception: ``` [2019-03-07T23:15:10,594][ERROR][o.e.b.Bootstrap] [aH8C7o_] Exception java.lang.IllegalStateException: failed to load plugin class [org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.XPackPlugin] at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginsService.loadPlugin(PluginsService.java:607) ~[elasticsearch-6.5.4.jar:6.5.4] at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginsService.loadBundle(PluginsService.java:549) ~[elasticsearch-6.5.4.jar:6.5.4] at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginsService.loadBundles(PluginsService.java:464) ~[elasticsearch-6.5.4.jar:6.5.4] at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginsService.(PluginsService.java:156) ~[elasticsearch-6.5.4.jar:6.5.4] at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:338) ~[elasticsearch-6.5.4.jar:6.5.4] at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:265) ~[elasticsearch-6.5.4.jar:6.5.4] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap$5.(Bootstrap.java:212) ~[elasticsearch-6.5.4.jar:6.5.4] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:212) ~[elasticsearch-6.5.4.jar:6.5.4] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:333) [elasticsearch-6.5.4.jar:6.5.4] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:136) [elasticsearch-6.5.4.jar:6.5.4] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:127) [elasticsearch-6.5.4.jar:6.5.4] at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86) [elasticsearch-6.5.4.jar:6.5.4] at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124) [elasticsearch-cli-6.5.4.jar:6.5.4] at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90) [elasticsearch-cli-6.5.4.jar:6.5.4] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:93) [elasticsearch-6.5.4.jar:6.5.4] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:86) [elasticsearch-6.5.4.jar:6.5.4] Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) ~[?:?] at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62) ~[?:?] at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) ~[?:?] at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423) ~[?:1.8.0_171] at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginsService.loadPlugin(PluginsService.java:598) ~[elasticsearch-6.5.4.jar:6.5.4] ... 15 more Caused by: org.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchException: failed to initialize a TrustManagerFactory at org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ssl.DefaultJDKTrustConfig.createTrustManager(DefaultJDKTrustConfig.java:49) ~[?:?] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ssl.SSLService.createSslContext(SSLService.java:356) ~[?:?] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ssl.SSLService.loadSSLConfigurations(SSLService.java:389) ~[?:?] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ssl.SSLService.(SSLService.java:93) ~[?:?] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.XPackPlugin.(XPackPlugin.java:140) ~[?:?] at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) ~[?:?] at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62) ~[?:?] at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) ~[?:?] at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423) ~[?:1.8.0_171] at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginsService.loadPlugin(PluginsService.java:598) ~[elasticsearch-6.5.4.jar:6.5.4] ... 15 more Caused by: java.security.KeyStoreException: problem accessing trust storejava.io.IOException: Invalid keystore format at sun.security.ssl.TrustManagerFactoryImpl.engineInit(TrustManagerFactoryImpl.java:74) ~[?:?] at javax.net.ssl.TrustManagerFactory.init(TrustManagerFactory.java:250) ~[?:1.8.0_171] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ssl.CertParsingUtils.trustManager(CertParsingUtils.java:276) ~[?:?] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ssl.DefaultJDKTrustConfig.createTrustManager(DefaultJDKTrustConfig.java:47) ~[?:?] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ssl.SSLService.createSslContext(SSLService.java:356) ~[?:?] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ssl.SSLService.loadSSLConfigurations(SSLService.java:389) ~[?:?] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ssl.SSLService.(SSLService.java:93) ~[?:?] at org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.XPackPlugin.(XPackPlugin.java:140) ~[?:?] at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) ~[?:?] at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62) ~[?:?] at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) ~[?:?] at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423) ~[?:1.8.0_171] at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginsService.loadPlugin(PluginsService.java:598) ~[elasticsearch-6.5.4.jar:6.5.4] ... 15 more ``` ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 6:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prevent-elasticsearch-6-5-from-loading-xpack/171403/2 "2019-03-08T06:13:21Z")
There is a separate oss distribution available that does not include x-pack, which might be what you are looking for. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 6:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prevent-elasticsearch-6-5-from-loading-xpack/171403/3 "2019-04-05T06:13:31Z")
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