Registry Error Upgrading Beats, Safe to Delete Registry File?

[aidanhl]

There appears to be conflicting answers on the discussion board.

One suggesting to delete the regfile to fix the issue, and one saying that deleting the regfile is not a safe procedure.

Exiting: Could not start registrar: Error loading state: Error decoding states: EOF

My environment: # cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 (Maipo) # rpm -q filebeat filebeat-5.2.0-1.x86_64 # systemctl: # systemctl stop filebeat # systemctl start filebeat # echo $? 0 # systemctl status filebeat ● filebeat.service - filebeat Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/filebeat.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Wed 2017-02-08 15:32:17 EST; 8min ago Docs: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/b…

Deleting Filebeat Registry File

This issue should potentially solve this problem: https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/1022 Please have a look and let me know if this would help.