# Starting Elasticsearch with systemd hangs **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [April 23, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-elasticsearch-with-systemd-hangs/229510 "2020-04-23T15:57:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![ffknob](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ffknob/32/37008_2.png) [@ffknob](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ffknob)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 7:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-elasticsearch-with-systemd-hangs/229510/2 "2020-04-23T19:23:34Z")
Found this one. SHould be helpful for someone, but it didn't work for me. > [@Elasticsearch no longer works under systemd (7.4.0 on CentOS 7.7.1908)?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-no-longer-works-under-systemd-7-4-0-on-centos-7-7-1908/201846): > > I'm at a loss here. I have a WHM-managed CentOS 7.7 that's regularly applying patches in the background. I did a reboot today to have a kernel update take effect and when the system came back up ElasticSearch failed to start. I'm running the latest ES package that's available according to yum on my machine: # yum info elasticsearch Loaded plugins: langpacks, universal-hooks Installed Packages Name : elasticsearch Arch : x86\_64 Version : 7.4.0 Release : 1 Size : 469… --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-elasticsearch-with-systemd-hangs/229510)._