Problem starting elasticsearch 0.90.11

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Permissions on the log directory /var/log/elasticsearch look okay:

drwxr-xr-x 2 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4096 Aug 19 12:50 elasticsearch

Jim

On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 12:41:42 UTC+1, Jörg Prante wrote:

Check if the file permissions are set correctly. If logging system
complains, it can not access files.

Jörg

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Jim Adamson <jim.a...@york.ac.uk
<javascript:>> wrote:

Hello again Jörg,

I had a look at this and contrary to what I said in my previous
message /etc/init.d/elasticsearch is configured to run ES as an
unprivileged user:

ES_USER=elasticsearch
ES_GROUP=elasticsearch

That user exists and is a member of that group.

Any further suggestions?

thanks,
Jim

On Friday, 8 August 2014 17:38:03 UTC+1, Jim Adamson wrote:

Hello Jörg!

Thanks for the reply. I was indeed trying to start ES as superuser. I
will try this in a week or so as I am off on leave at the moment.

Jim

On Friday, 8 August 2014 08:37:41 UTC+1, Jörg Prante wrote:

I do not use deb or rpm, but I remember this is an issue when running
ES under superuser privilege.

ES should never (never) run as root, instead a user with minimal
privilege should be created.

Jörg

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Mark Walkom ma...@campaignmonitor.com
wrote:

I just tested this and didn't run into the same problem.

Have you changed something locally around your environment variables,
or in the service defaults?

Regards,
Mark Walkom

Infrastructure Engineer
Campaign Monitor
email: ma...@campaignmonitor.com
web: www.campaignmonitor.com

On 8 August 2014 00:34, Jim Adamson jim.a...@york.ac.uk wrote:

I am having a problem running elasticsearch-0.90.11.deb on Ubuntu
12.04.4 LTS (VMWare VM, Intel Xeon @ 2.3Ghz, 2GB RAM). The problem occurs
after I run /etc/init.d/elasticsearch start. Although ES appears to start
successfully, grepping for the process shows it is not running.

Issuing the following:

cd /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin
./elasticsearch -f

...gives:

log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (node).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN See Apache log4j 1.2 - Frequently Asked Technical Questions
for more info.

With help from a developer colleague I have managed to get it to run
by adding a suitable log4j.properties file to /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin,
cd-ing to that directory and running ./elasticsearch -f -Dlog4j.configuration=./log4j.properties. However, I'm not sure why
this would have been required in the first place and feel there must be
something misconfigured that's resulting in the init.d script failing to
start ES.

I have tried adding the following to /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml
but it doesn't make a difference:

path.conf: /etc/elasticsearch
path.data: /var/lib/elasticsearch
path.work: /tmp/elasticsearch
path.logs: /var/log/elasticsearch

ES is one of the dependencies for some software we are running called
atom, which only support ES < v1. The install instructions are available at
Administrator manual | Documentation (Version 2.0) | AtoM: Open Source Archival Description Software
installation/linux/#installation-linux.

The version of Java is Oracle’s JVM distributed by Web Upd8:

java -version
java version "1.8.0_11"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_11-b12)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.11-b03, mixed mode)

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Jim

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