I've had a few posts here already, but to cover the bases I'm trying to setup teh ELK stack on a fresh CentOS 7 minimal VM. I've been following the official guide: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack/current/installing-elastic-stack.html and after resolving various other smaller issues I've returned to this one that's persisted through all others. I'm getting this error when I try to start ES via systemd.
Nov 04 14:04:02 localhost.localdomain sudo[2361]: mtops : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/usr/share/elasticsearch/logs ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/systemctl start elasticsearch
Nov 04 14:04:02 localhost.localdomain polkitd[677]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-process:2362:134606 (system bus name :1.28 [/usr/bin/pkttyagent --notify-fd 5 --fallback], object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/Authenti
Nov 04 14:04:02 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Elasticsearch...
-- Subject: Unit elasticsearch.service has begun start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit elasticsearch.service has begun starting up.
Nov 04 14:04:02 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Elasticsearch.
-- Subject: Unit elasticsearch.service has finished start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit elasticsearch.service has finished starting up.
--
-- The start-up result is done.
Nov 04 14:04:02 localhost.localdomain polkitd[677]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:2362:134606 (system bus name :1.28, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) (disconnecte
Nov 04 14:04:13 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 04 14:04:13 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit elasticsearch.service entered failed state.
Nov 04 14:04:13 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service failed.