Hi,
we are trying to start out elasticsearch process
sudo service elasticsearch start
sudo service elasticsearch status gives following
[root@efkkibapp31d x-pack]# sudo service elasticsearch status -l
● elasticsearch.service - Elasticsearch
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2017-03-01 21:34:47 EST; 15s ago
Docs: http://www.elastic.co
Process: 29341 ExecStart=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -p ${PID_DIR}/elasticsearch.pid --quiet -Edefault.path.logs=${LOG_DIR} -Edefault.path.data=${DATA_DIR} -Edefault.path.conf=${CONF_DIR} (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Process: 29339 ExecStartPre=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-systemd-pre-exec (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 29341 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Mar 01 21:34:47 efkkibapp31d.amtrak.ad.nrpc elasticsearch[29341]: at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:122)
Mar 01 21:34:47 efkkibapp31d.amtrak.ad.nrpc elasticsearch[29341]: at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:88)
Mar 01 21:34:47 efkkibapp31d.amtrak.ad.nrpc elasticsearch[29341]: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:89)
Mar 01 21:34:47 efkkibapp31d.amtrak.ad.nrpc elasticsearch[29341]: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:82)
Mar 01 21:34:47 efkkibapp31d.amtrak.ad.nrpc elasticsearch[29341]: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
Mar 01 21:34:47 efkkibapp31d.amtrak.ad.nrpc elasticsearch[29341]: at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.composite.DefaultMergeStrategy.mergeRootProp...ava:72)
Mar 01 21:34:47 efkkibapp31d.amtrak.ad.nrpc elasticsearch[29341]: at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.composite.CompositeConfiguration.(Comp...ava:77)
Mar 01 21:34:47 efkkibapp31d.amtrak.ad.nrpc systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 01 21:34:47 efkkibapp31d.amtrak.ad.nrpc systemd[1]: Unit elasticsearch.service entered failed state.
Mar 01 21:34:47 efkkibapp31d.amtrak.ad.nrpc systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service failed.
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Cant find anything in log.