Property [name] is missing for plugin [plugin-descriptor.properties] while starting

AlexeiKlimenko · November 14, 2024, 7:39am

Hello.

Installed ES

ii  elasticsearch               8.15.2                         amd64        Distributed RESTful search engine built for the cloud

When configured as a first node for future cluster:

cluster.name: osir-cluster
node.name: node01
path.data: /var/lib/elasticsearch
path.logs: /var/log/elasticsearch
network.host: 10.10.7.41

xpack.security.enabled: true
xpack.security.enrollment.enabled: true
xpack.security.http.ssl:
  enabled: true
  keystore.path: certs/http.p12

xpack.security.transport.ssl:
  enabled: true
  verification_mode: certificate
  keystore.path: certs/transport.p12
  truststore.path: certs/transport.p12
cluster.initial_master_nodes: ["10.10.7.41"]

http.host: 0.0.0.0
transport.host: 0.0.0.0

During starting ES has got a issue:

[2024-11-14T10:33:47,879][ERROR][o.e.b.Elasticsearch      ] [node01] fatal exception while booting Elasticsearch
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: property [name] is missing for plugin [plugin-descriptor.properties]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readNonEmptyString(PluginDescriptor.java:302) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readerInternalDescriptor(PluginDescriptor.java:263) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readFromProperties(PluginDescriptor.java:252) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Spawner.spawnNativeControllers(Spawner.java:81) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.initPhase2(Elasticsearch.java:166) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:74) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]

But not plugins are installed:

ls -la /usr/share/elasticsearch/plugins
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 19 13:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Nov 14 10:22 ..

How to resolve this issue?

dadoonet · November 14, 2024, 8:59am

Welcome!

I'm surprised to see:

ii  elasticsearch               8.15.2                         amd64        Distributed RESTful search engine built for the cloud

And:

(PluginDescriptor.java:302) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]

Could you explain? And check what exactly you are doing?
It would help to reproduce the problem.

AlexeiKlimenko · November 14, 2024, 9:32am

I was trying to update from 8.15.2 to 8.16.0

ii  elasticsearch                8.16.0                                             amd64        Distributed RESTful search engine built for the cloud

But it hasn't resolved the issue yet.

How to reproduce:

root@node01:~# systemctl start elasticsearch.service 
Job for elasticsearch.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status elasticsearch.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
root@node01:~# systemctl status elasticsearch.service 
● elasticsearch.service - Elasticsearch
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2024-11-14 12:31:20 MSK; 4s ago
       Docs: https://www.elastic.co
    Process: 1158 ExecStart=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/systemd-entrypoint -p ${PID_DIR}/elasticsearch.pid --quiet (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 1158 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 7.357s

Nov 14 12:31:17 node01 systemd[1]: Starting Elasticsearch...
Nov 14 12:31:19 node01 systemd-entrypoint[1217]: CompileCommand: dontinline java/lang/invoke/MethodHandle.setAsTypeCache bool dontinline = true
Nov 14 12:31:19 node01 systemd-entrypoint[1217]: CompileCommand: dontinline java/lang/invoke/MethodHandle.asTypeUncached bool dontinline = true
Nov 14 12:31:20 node01 systemd-entrypoint[1158]: ERROR: Elasticsearch did not exit normally - check the logs at /var/log/elasticsearch/osir-cluster.log
Nov 14 12:31:20 node01 systemd-entrypoint[1158]: ERROR: Elasticsearch died while starting up, with exit code 1
Nov 14 12:31:20 node01 systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 14 12:31:20 node01 systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 14 12:31:20 node01 systemd[1]: Failed to start Elasticsearch.
Nov 14 12:31:20 node01 systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Consumed 7.357s CPU time.

dadoonet · November 14, 2024, 10:07am

So I just tried a very basic thing (on MacOS):

mkdir es-distribution
cd es-distribution
wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-8.16.0-darwin-aarch64.tar.gz
tar xzf elasticsearch-8.16.0-darwin-aarch64.tar.gz
cd elasticsearch-8.16.0
bin/elasticsearch

And all worked well OOTB for me.

One of the difference I could see with your installation is that the plugins dir belongs to root whereas mine belongs to my current user.

Could you share the full logs from the start?

AlexeiKlimenko · November 14, 2024, 10:37am

You know, all the files inside /usr/share/elasticsearch have been owned by root:root and also tried to change owner like as "chown -R elasticsearch:elasticsearch /usr/share/elasticsearch/" but id didn't resolve the issue.

Logs in /var/log/elasticsearch/osir-cluster.log have the same content:

[2024-11-14T10:08:44,673][ERROR][o.e.b.Elasticsearch      ] [node01] fatal exception while booting Elasticsearch
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: property [name] is missing for plugin [plugin-descriptor.properties]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readNonEmptyString(PluginDescriptor.java:301) ~[elasticsearch-8.15.2.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readerInternalDescriptor(PluginDescriptor.java:262) ~[elasticsearch-8.15.2.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readFromProperties(PluginDescriptor.java:251) ~[elasticsearch-8.15.2.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Spawner.spawnNativeControllers(Spawner.java:80) ~[elasticsearch-8.15.2.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.initPhase2(Elasticsearch.java:167) ~[elasticsearch-8.15.2.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:75) ~[elasticsearch-8.15.2.jar:?]
[2024-11-14T10:23:49,450][ERROR][o.e.b.Elasticsearch      ] [node01] fatal exception while booting Elasticsearch
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: property [name] is missing for plugin [plugin-descriptor.properties]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readNonEmptyString(PluginDescriptor.java:302) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readerInternalDescriptor(PluginDescriptor.java:263) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readFromProperties(PluginDescriptor.java:252) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Spawner.spawnNativeControllers(Spawner.java:81) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.initPhase2(Elasticsearch.java:166) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:74) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]

dadoonet · November 14, 2024, 10:51am

But that's the very first line of the log file?

AlexeiKlimenko · November 14, 2024, 11:13am

There were the head of the log during starting ES first time after installation 8.15.2.
Nothing else.

dadoonet · November 14, 2024, 11:29am

But when you started the 8.16 version? Is that the start of the log file?

AlexeiKlimenko · November 14, 2024, 11:55am

Here is the full log:

root@node01:~# cat /var/log/elasticsearch/osir-cluster.log
[2024-11-14T10:08:44,673][ERROR][o.e.b.Elasticsearch      ] [node01] fatal exception while booting Elasticsearch
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: property [name] is missing for plugin [plugin-descriptor.properties]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readNonEmptyString(PluginDescriptor.java:301) ~[elasticsearch-8.15.2.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readerInternalDescriptor(PluginDescriptor.java:262) ~[elasticsearch-8.15.2.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readFromProperties(PluginDescriptor.java:251) ~[elasticsearch-8.15.2.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Spawner.spawnNativeControllers(Spawner.java:80) ~[elasticsearch-8.15.2.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.initPhase2(Elasticsearch.java:167) ~[elasticsearch-8.15.2.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:75) ~[elasticsearch-8.15.2.jar:?]
[2024-11-14T10:23:49,450][ERROR][o.e.b.Elasticsearch      ] [node01] fatal exception while booting Elasticsearch
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: property [name] is missing for plugin [plugin-descriptor.properties]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readNonEmptyString(PluginDescriptor.java:302) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readerInternalDescriptor(PluginDescriptor.java:263) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readFromProperties(PluginDescriptor.java:252) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Spawner.spawnNativeControllers(Spawner.java:81) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.initPhase2(Elasticsearch.java:166) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:74) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
[2024-11-14T10:24:04,135][ERROR][o.e.b.Elasticsearch      ] [node01] fatal exception while booting Elasticsearch
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: property [name] is missing for plugin [plugin-descriptor.properties]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readNonEmptyString(PluginDescriptor.java:302) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readerInternalDescriptor(PluginDescriptor.java:263) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readFromProperties(PluginDescriptor.java:252) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Spawner.spawnNativeControllers(Spawner.java:81) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.initPhase2(Elasticsearch.java:166) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:74) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
[2024-11-14T10:30:51,302][ERROR][o.e.b.Elasticsearch      ] [node01] fatal exception while booting Elasticsearch
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: property [name] is missing for plugin [plugin-descriptor.properties]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readNonEmptyString(PluginDescriptor.java:302) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readerInternalDescriptor(PluginDescriptor.java:263) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readFromProperties(PluginDescriptor.java:252) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Spawner.spawnNativeControllers(Spawner.java:81) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.initPhase2(Elasticsearch.java:166) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:74) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
[2024-11-14T10:33:47,879][ERROR][o.e.b.Elasticsearch      ] [node01] fatal exception while booting Elasticsearch
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: property [name] is missing for plugin [plugin-descriptor.properties]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readNonEmptyString(PluginDescriptor.java:302) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readerInternalDescriptor(PluginDescriptor.java:263) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readFromProperties(PluginDescriptor.java:252) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Spawner.spawnNativeControllers(Spawner.java:81) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.initPhase2(Elasticsearch.java:166) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:74) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
[2024-11-14T12:31:20,400][ERROR][o.e.b.Elasticsearch      ] [node01] fatal exception while booting Elasticsearch
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: property [name] is missing for plugin [plugin-descriptor.properties]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readNonEmptyString(PluginDescriptor.java:302) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readerInternalDescriptor(PluginDescriptor.java:263) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readFromProperties(PluginDescriptor.java:252) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Spawner.spawnNativeControllers(Spawner.java:81) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.initPhase2(Elasticsearch.java:166) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:74) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
[2024-11-14T13:32:51,255][ERROR][o.e.b.Elasticsearch      ] [node01] fatal exception while booting Elasticsearch
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: property [name] is missing for plugin [plugin-descriptor.properties]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readNonEmptyString(PluginDescriptor.java:302) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readerInternalDescriptor(PluginDescriptor.java:263) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readFromProperties(PluginDescriptor.java:252) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Spawner.spawnNativeControllers(Spawner.java:81) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.initPhase2(Elasticsearch.java:166) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:74) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
[2024-11-14T13:39:33,556][ERROR][o.e.b.Elasticsearch      ] [node01] fatal exception while booting Elasticsearch
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: property [name] is missing for plugin [plugin-descriptor.properties]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readNonEmptyString(PluginDescriptor.java:302) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readerInternalDescriptor(PluginDescriptor.java:263) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readFromProperties(PluginDescriptor.java:252) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Spawner.spawnNativeControllers(Spawner.java:81) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.initPhase2(Elasticsearch.java:166) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:74) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
[2024-11-14T13:40:18,571][ERROR][o.e.b.Elasticsearch      ] [node01] fatal exception while booting Elasticsearch
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: property [name] is missing for plugin [plugin-descriptor.properties]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readNonEmptyString(PluginDescriptor.java:302) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readerInternalDescriptor(PluginDescriptor.java:263) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginDescriptor.readFromProperties(PluginDescriptor.java:252) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Spawner.spawnNativeControllers(Spawner.java:81) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.initPhase2(Elasticsearch.java:166) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:74) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]

Tried update to 8.16.0 and then changing owner for elasticsearch folders - without any success.
Package has been installed from

 "deb [trusted=yes] https://mirror.yandex.ru/mirrors/elastic/8/ stable main"

dadoonet · November 14, 2024, 12:50pm

Just to make sure. Could you start in another directory with the exact commands I shared previously?

AlexeiKlimenko · November 14, 2024, 1:55pm

Nope.

With root got:

java.lang.RuntimeException: can not run elasticsearch as root
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.initializeNatives(Elasticsearch.java:287) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.initPhase2(Elasticsearch.java:169) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]
	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:74) ~[elasticsearch-8.16.0.jar:?]

With regular user

user@node01:/tmp/elasticsearch-8.16.0$ bin/elasticsearch
bin/elasticsearch-cli: line 14: /tmp/elasticsearch-8.16.0/jdk/bin/java: Permission denied

Notice.
Procedures of installing and configuring ES Cluster have been deployed with root user.

dadoonet · November 14, 2024, 2:36pm

Don't run as root but as a standard user.

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