# Ubuntu 16.04 & Elasticsearch 1.7 - Startup Error

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ubuntu-16-04-elasticsearch-1-7-startup-error/89752>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 16, 2017, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ubuntu-16-04-elasticsearch-1-7-startup-error/89752 "2017-06-16T17:04:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![yashvit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b3f665/32.png) [@yashvit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yashvit)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ubuntu-16-04-elasticsearch-1-7-startup-error/89752/1 "2017-06-16T17:04:12Z")

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I have recently added a new node(fresh install of ubuntu & elastic install via dpkg) to my existing cluster, and randomly one server would not start elasticsearch on a restart. When manually trying to start it gives the following error:

```
sudo systemctl status elasticsearch

elasticsearch.service - Elasticsearch
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2017-06-16 12:32:28 UTC; 3s ago
     Docs: http://www.elastic.co
  Process: 1437 ExecStart=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -Des.pidfile=$PID_DIR/elasticsearch.pid -Des.default.path.home=$ES_HOME -Des.default.p
 Main PID: 1437 (code=exited, status=3)

Jun 16 12:32:28 els02.xyz.net elasticsearch[1437]: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /var/run/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.pid (No such file or directory)
Jun 16 12:32:28 els02.xyz.net elasticsearch[1437]: at java.io.FileOutputStream.open0(Native Method)
Jun 16 12:32:28 els02.xyz.net elasticsearch[1437]: at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(FileOutputStream.java:270)
Jun 16 12:32:28 els02.xyz.net elasticsearch[1437]: at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:213)
Jun 16 12:32:28 els02.xyz.net elasticsearch[1437]: at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:162)
Jun 16 12:32:28 els02.xyz.net elasticsearch[1437]: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:194)
Jun 16 12:32:28 els02.xyz.net elasticsearch[1437]: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:32)
Jun 16 12:32:28 els02.xyz.net systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=3/NOTIMPLEMENTED
Jun 16 12:32:28 els02.xyz.net systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jun 16 12:32:28 els02.xyz.net systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

```

So I went ahead and created the folder that elasticsearch requires in - /var/run/elasticsearch and changed ownership to elasticsearch:elasticsearch. After this elasticsearch starts fine. But on restart the same issue again.

Tried changing the PID\_DIR folder to /var/run in the service file at /usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service but that gives a different error:

java.io.FileNotFoundException: /var/run/elasticsearch.pid (Permission denied)

One other thing i noticed, when I manually create the dir in /var/run and start elasticsearch, it seems to work fine but the GET /\_nodes does not return any stats of the OS or Filesystem. This might be a completely unrelated issue but I noticed this because I use Opserver to monitor my cluster which shows no OS/Hardware stats for this node (It was working all fine before the restart fiasco).

Linux Version: Ubuntu 16.04  
Elasticsearch Version: 1.7.3

Aware of this issue which was affecting Elasticsearch 1.6 - [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/11594](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/11594)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ubuntu-16-04-elasticsearch-1-7-startup-error/89752/2 "2017-07-14T17:04:32Z")

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