# The new Centos 7, RPM installation cannot run
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-new-centos-7-rpm-installation-cannot-run/141013
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 21, 2018, 7:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-new-centos-7-rpm-installation-cannot-run/141013 "2018-07-21T19:50:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@saki](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saki)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2018, 7:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-new-centos-7-rpm-installation-cannot-run/141013/1 "2018-07-21T19:50:48Z")
I followed the guide,complete installation. but `curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200'` didn't work.
So I check `systemctl status elasticsearch.service -l` and get:
```
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2018-07-21 15:39:34 EDT; 1min 40s ago
Docs: http://www.elastic.co
Process: 10522 ExecStart=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -p ${PID_DIR}/elasticsearch.pid --quiet -Edefault.path.logs=${LOG_DIR} -Edefault.path.data=${DATA_DIR} -Edefault.path.conf=${CONF_DIR} (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Process: 10520 ExecStartPre=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-systemd-pre-exec (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 10522 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Jul 21 15:39:34 host.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Elasticsearch...
Jul 21 15:39:34 host.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Elasticsearch.
Jul 21 15:39:34 host.localdomain systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jul 21 15:39:34 host.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit elasticsearch.service entered failed state.
Jul 21 15:39:34 host.localdomain systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service failed.
```
I don't understand why...
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### Author:  [@saki](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saki)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2018, 7:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-new-centos-7-rpm-installation-cannot-run/141013/2 "2018-07-21T19:55:25Z")
The program version is jdk1.8.0\_181 and Elasticsearch 5.6.10.
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### Author:  [@Johnnycc1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Johnnycc1)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2018, 5:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-new-centos-7-rpm-installation-cannot-run/141013/3 "2018-07-22T05:04:53Z")
Check the logs. It will tell you why. Probably insufficient memory or host limitations on files. All easy fixed.
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### Author:  [@saki](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saki)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2018, 6:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-new-centos-7-rpm-installation-cannot-run/141013/5 "2018-07-22T06:13:40Z")
No log generation.
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### Author:  [@saki](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saki)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2018, 6:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-new-centos-7-rpm-installation-cannot-run/141013/6 "2018-07-22T06:19:57Z")
Elasticsearch doesn't seem to work with ROOT.
But when I asked people, they said that using RPM for installation under ROOT was work.So I install it with ROOT, is that the reason for the problem?
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### Author:  [@saki](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saki)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2018, 6:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-new-centos-7-rpm-installation-cannot-run/141013/7 "2018-07-22T06:53:32Z")
use`journalctl -u elasticsearch -b`
Jul 22 02:46:14 host.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Elasticsearch...
Jul 22 02:46:14 host.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Elasticsearch.
Jul 22 02:46:14 host.localdomain systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jul 22 02:46:14 host.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit elasticsearch.service entered failed state.
Jul 22 02:46:14 host.localdomain systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service failed.
Jul 22 02:46:47 host.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Elasticsearch...
Jul 22 02:46:47 host.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Elasticsearch.
Jul 22 02:46:47 host.localdomain systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jul 22 02:46:47 host.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit elasticsearch.service entered failed state.
Jul 22 02:46:47 host.localdomain systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service failed.
Jul 22 02:47:52 host.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Elasticsearch...
Jul 22 02:47:52 host.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Elasticsearch.
Jul 22 02:47:52 host.localdomain systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jul 22 02:47:52 host.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit elasticsearch.service entered failed state.
Jul 22 02:47:52 host.localdomain systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service failed.
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### Author:  [@Johnnycc1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Johnnycc1)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2018, 6:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-new-centos-7-rpm-installation-cannot-run/141013/8 "2018-07-22T06:58:21Z")
This is the systemd log. How about /var/log/elasticsearch. Or similar for your os.
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### Author:  [@saki](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saki)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2018, 7:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-new-centos-7-rpm-installation-cannot-run/141013/9 "2018-07-22T07:09:42Z")
```
[root@host ~]# cd /var/log/elasticsearch
[root@host elasticsearch]# ls
[root@host elasticsearch]#
```
Not seeing any...
and what is "similar for your OS"?
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### Author:  [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2018, 2:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-new-centos-7-rpm-installation-cannot-run/141013/10 "2018-07-23T02:15:30Z")
If you installed from the official Elastic provided RPM, then `/var/log/elasticsearch` is the correct directory.
Let's start by looking at files and permissions. Can you provide the output of the command below?
```
ls -ld /var/ /var/log/ /var/log/elasticsearch/ /usr/share/elasticsearch/ /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2018, 2:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-new-centos-7-rpm-installation-cannot-run/141013/11 "2018-08-20T02:15:43Z")
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