# Starting elasticserver error
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-elasticserver-error/136173
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 16, 2018, 12:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-elasticserver-error/136173 "2018-06-16T12:30:16Z")
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### Author:  [@Pradana](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pradana)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2018, 12:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-elasticserver-error/136173/1 "2018-06-16T12:30:16Z")
I just installing elasticsearch 6.3 through yum in RHEL 7. When i try to start the service with systemctl start elasticsearch .. the service wont up. when i check with journalctl -xe -u elasticsearch, i got below error :
Jun 16 19:16:16 localhost.localdomain elasticsearch[13784]: /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-env: line 78: cd: /etc/elasticsearch:
Jun 16 19:16:17 localhost.localdomain elasticsearch[13784]: Exception in thread "main" java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /usr/share/elastic
Jun 16 19:16:17 localhost.localdomain elasticsearch[13784]: at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:86)
Jun 16 19:16:17 localhost.localdomain elasticsearch[13784]: at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102)
Jun 16 19:16:17 localhost.localdomain elasticsearch[13784]: at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:107)
Jun 16 19:16:17 localhost.localdomain elasticsearch[13784]: at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newByteChannel(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:
Jun 16 19:16:17 localhost.localdomain elasticsearch[13784]: at java.nio.file.Files.newByteChannel(Files.java:361)
Jun 16 19:16:17 localhost.localdomain elasticsearch[13784]: at java.nio.file.Files.newByteChannel(Files.java:407)
Jun 16 19:16:17 localhost.localdomain elasticsearch[13784]: at java.nio.file.spi.FileSystemProvider.newInputStream(FileSystemProvider.java:3
Jun 16 19:16:17 localhost.localdomain elasticsearch[13784]: at java.nio.file.Files.newInputStream(Files.java:152)
Jun 16 19:16:17 localhost.localdomain elasticsearch[13784]: at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmOptionsParser.main(JvmOptionsParser.java
Jun 16 19:16:18 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jun 16 19:16:18 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit elasticsearch.service entered failed state.
What is actually the error here ?
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### Author:  [@Pradana](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pradana)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2018, 4:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-elasticserver-error/136173/2 "2018-06-17T04:26:07Z")
after synchronize the directory ownership ... everything is working fine ...somehow during the installation the ownere of the directory become root:elasticsearch which should be elasticsearch:elasticsearch
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2018, 4:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-elasticserver-error/136173/3 "2018-07-15T04:26:15Z")
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